Using two market-view variables, namely the regulatory forbearance fraction imbedded in the bank capital and the market-valued of the bank equity-to-assets ratio, derived from market equity and total liabilities from listed commercial banks in the U.S. and three countries (Japan, China, India)...

The current paper provides a general approach to construct distortion operators that can price financial and insurance risks. Our approach generalizes the Wang (2000) transform and recovers multiple distortions proposed in the literature as particular cases. This approach enables designing...

This paper extends extant valuation models of interest rate swaps (IRS) with counterparty credit risk by accounting for wrong-way risk and OIS discounting. The proposed model extends Brigo and Pallavicini's (2007) and Ruiz et al.'s (2013) models, by capturing wrong-way risk in the CVA...

We study how traditional reinsurance and CAT bonds can be combined to build an optimal catastrophe insurance programme. We develop a contingent claims model to investigate the imperfections and limitations of the reinsurance market stemming from financial distress costs and default risk. We find...

Some Canadian provinces have already adopted Basel III rules for the oversight of their administrated credit unions. We analyze the importance of the Basel III additional capital buffer requirements for credit union prudential regulation. Based on a sample of the 100 largest credit unions in...

Previous empirical studies on catastrophe (CAT) bond premium calculations rely almost exclusively on actuarial models, and usually compare their accuracy strictly in terms of in-sample t and predictive power. We contribute to this literature by deriving a utility-based specification for pricing...