irregular cash flows of poor households, who have been excluded in the commercial insurance system for a variety of reasons … households. The most prominent forms of microinsurance are life insurance and health insurance (carried out as part of an overall … health care package that links the health insurance to a health facility), which have been designed to be responsive to the …

insurance. I compare models with deterministic and stochastic hazard rate of death to a model without mortality risk. Mortality … influences optimal controls and wealth evolution. The insurance is used to ensure optimal bequest such that there is no … accidental bequest. In the absence of the insurance, the biggest part of bequest is accidental. …

in the banking industry. Especially life insurance companies could serve as CoCo bond holders as they are already the … insurance and study the effects of various types of bonds such as non-convertible bonds, write-down bonds and CoCos on banks …

in the banking industry. Especially life insurance companies could serve as CoCo bond holders as they are already the … insurance and study the effects of various types of bonds such as non-convertible bonds, write-down bonds and CoCos on banks …

the bank and insurance sector by changing the funding patterns of banks as well as the investment strategies of life … insurance companies. Especially for life insurance companies, the current low interest rate environment poses a key risk since … declining returns on investments jeopardize the guaranteed return on life insurance contracts, a core component of traditional …

This paper investigates the effects of a rise in interest rate and lapse risk of endowment life insurance policies on …