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When firms approach distress, whether they engage in asset substitution (risk shifting) or rebuild equity (risk …
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disaster risk resilience (DRR). This paper tries to emphasise the importance of DRR in dealing with natural catastrophesby …. It briefly talks about synergising risk reduction efforts with sustainable development goals through the Sendai Framework …
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of business. The concern was apparently brevity risk, i.e., the risk of premature death. The brevity risk due to a … pandemic is similar to the property risk associated with catastrophic events such as earthquakes and hurricanes and the … security used to hedge the risk is similar to a CAT bond. This work looks at the incentives associated with insurance …
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risk measures for portfolios with infrequently traded securities have not been explored in the literature. We propose a … methodology to calculate market risk measures based on the Kalman filter which can be used on incomplete datasets. We implement … applied to other markets with thinly traded securities. Our methodology provides reliable market risk measures in portfolios …
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of risk, both being associated to the stresses supported by the socio-economic system. We propose instruments for … resilience build-up and management based on a novel classification of risk and resilience management regimes corresponding to the …
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the insurance sector. The downside risk of insurers is explicitly modelled by common and idiosyncratic risk factors. Since … reinsurance is important for the capacity of insurers, we measure risk dependence among European insurers and reinsurers. The … results point to a relatively low insurance sector wide risk. Dependence among insurers is higher than among reinsurers. …
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We discuss risk measures representing the minimum amount of capital a financial institution needs to raise and invest …-additive risk measures, for which the eligible asset is a risk-free bond, on the grounds that the general case can be reduced to the … provide a variety of finiteness and continuity results for the corresponding risk measures and apply them to risk measures …
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Historical evidence like the global financial crisis from 2007-09 highlights that sector concentration risk can play an … II consider only name concentration risk explicitly in their solvency capital requirements for asset concentration risk … and neglect sector concentration risk. We show by means of US insurers' asset holdings from 2009 to 2018 that substantial …
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decline. While participating contracts embedding these guarantees are designed to share market risk across investor cohorts … when guarantees are not binding, we study how binding guarantees distort inter-cohort risk sharing. Using regulatory data …
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In this paper we consider an alternative dividend payment strategy in risk theory, where the dividend rate can never … dividend payment strategies of barrier and threshold type. We study the case where once during the lifetime of the risk process … payments until ruin. We first consider a general spectrally-negative Lévy risk model, and then re fine the analysis for a …
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