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We study solvency contagion risk in the UK banking system from 2008 to 2015. We develop a model that only accounts for losses transmitted after banks default, but also for losses due to the fact that creditors revalue their exposures when probabilities of default of their counterparties change....
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Most insurers in the European Union determine their regulatory capital requirements based on the standard formula of Solvency II. However, there is evidence that the standard formula inaccurately reflects insurers’ risk situation and may provide misleading steering incentives. In the second...
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insurers to keep their solvency at the necessary level. Insurance companies in the European Union work on the implementation of … better connection of capital and risk profile, increased transparency, and higher flexibility of insurance companies … analysis of the current condition of the insurance market in BiH was made. By using the primary research and applying the …
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European legislation for the prudential regulation of insurance and reinsurance sector has existed since the 1970s … represents a crucial modernization of European insurance regulation. Each of these regimes prescribes its own rules for the …
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insurance group. In this paper, it is shown that premium and liability transfers could be optimally made in such a way as to … reduce the amount of Technical Provisions and Minimum Capital Requirement for the entire insurance conglomerate. These levels … of required capital represent the minimal amount that needs to be held by the insurance group without regulator …
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that insurance companies hold. Until very recently and within the scope of Solvency II, liquidity risk was only considered … under Pillar II, i.e. the proposal was that insurance companies should perform a mere qualitative evaluation of it. Nowadays … Portuguese insurance sector, using actual portfolio holdings. The main empirical findings confirm liquidity risk is an important …
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We introduce a class of quantile-based risk measures that generalize Value at Risk (VaR) and, likewise Expected Shortfall (ES), take into account both the frequency and the severity of losses. Under VaR a single confidence level is assigned regardless of the size of potential losses. We allow...
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macroprudential insurance regulation. …
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and hence a reduced risk exposure. However, planned Solvency III may cause the EPEF of highly capitalized insurance …
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This paper deals with stress tests for credit risk and shows how exploiting the discretion when setting up and implementing a model can drive the results of a quantitative stress test for default probabilities. For this purpose, we employ several variations of a CreditPortfolioView-style model...
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