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CAT bonds are of significant importance in the field of alternative risk transfer. Since the market of CAT bonds is not complete, the application of an appropriate pricing model is of high relevance. We apply different premium calculation models in order to compare them with regard to their...
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We provide a novel benefit of "Alternative Risk Transfer" (ART) products with parametric or index triggers. When a … reinsurer has private information about his client's risk, outside reinsurers will price their reinsurance offer less …. This creates a hold-up problem that allows the incumbent to extract an information rent. An information-insensitive ART …
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We provide a novel benefit of "Alternative Risk Transfer" (ART) products with parametric or index triggers. When a … reinsurer has private information about his client’s risk, outside reinsurers will price their reinsurance offer less …. This creates a hold-up problem that allows the incumbent to extract an information rent. An informationinsensitive ART …
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CAT bonds are important instruments for the insurance of catastrophe risk. Due to a low degree of deal standardization, there is uncertainty about the determination of the CAT bond premium. In addition, it is not apparent how CAT bonds react after the financial crisis or a natural catastrophe....
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The Munich Re was founded in 1880 and is from the very start till this day one of the leading insurance companies in the world. Despite its long and successfull existance the company’s history has not been reported yet in a way that fulfilled scientific criteria. This paper can be seen as a...
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business lines; there is default clustering in the GI industry; different reinsurance levels also affect the credit risk of …
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When firms approach distress, whether they engage in asset substitution (risk shifting) or rebuild equity (risk management) may depend on their access to capital markets. The property-casualty insurance industry has two features that make it ideal for testing this hypothesis: (1) the main losses...
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Risk transfer is a key risk and capital management tool for insurance companies. Transferring risk between insurers is used to mitigate risk and manage capital re- quirements. We investigate risk transfer in the context of a network environment of insurers and consider capital costs and capital...
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, with a specific view of the business of insurance and reinsurance companies, who are responding to the widening of the … improving the insurance coverage related to pandemics by establishing (re)insurance schemes and pooling arrangements for other …
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the retention level as well as the time at which subscribing a perpetual reinsurance contract. The surplus process of the … total discounted flow of capital injections needed to avoid bankruptcy and of the fixed activation cost of the reinsurance … of proportional and excess-of-loss reinsurance, by providing a numerical study of the dependency of the optimal solution …
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