This paper provides a method to assess the risk relief deriving from a foreign expansion by a life-insurance company. We build a parsimonious continuous-time model for longevity risk, that captures the dependence across different ages in domestic versus foreign populations. We provide three...

In 2018, the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) was fully implemented by all EU member states. It intends to harmonize the insurance market, provide the right incentives for the agents and protect the consumers. But why? The core business of the banking sector makes it necessary for a...

This study discusses the role of institutional investors in financing infrastructure in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). It analyzes the present level of involvement as well as the future investment potential of new financing sources such as public and private pension funds,...

Over the last two and a half decades, Luxembourg's financial sector emerged as a leading international hub for asset management and investment funds and became a key contributor to economic growth. Diversification into new areas of financial asset management is continuing. However, changing...

A sovereign debt crisis can have significant knock-on effects in the financial markets and put financial stability at risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional investors in the sovereign bond market. We use a firm...

Does a catastrophe bond issue increase the insurance firm value to shareholders? By issuing such bonds, insurance companies that are exposed to weather claims, can share their risk with investors, managing the corporate risk. The academic literature argues that hedging activities can increase a...

The primary objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between historical and implied volatility estimates in order to propose the nature of a model that predicts the future volatility. For this scope, we used non-overlapping clustering of observed futures volatility and implied...

The current COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant shock to the world economy which led to large-scale government support measures and thus proved the non-resilience of the current financial ecosystem, with devastating effects on the human global population. As research indicates, pandemic...

We explore latency arbitrage activities with a new arbitrage strategy that we test with high-frequency data during the first six months of 2019. We study the profitability of mean-reverting arbitrage activities of 74 cross-listed stocks involving three exchanges in Canada and the United States....

Animosity towards the business of finance is ancient and persistent. As finance creates intangible value, its contribution is invisible to many observers, but the proposed remedy – increased statutory regulation – may heighten, rather than mitigate the exposure of taxpayers and households to...