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The Effects of a Low Interest Rate Environment on Life Insurers
(2015-01-01)
Low interest rates are becoming a threat to the stability of the life insurance industry, especially in countries such as Germany, where products with relatively high guaranteed returns sold in the past still represent a ...
The Effects of Contingent Convertible (CoCo) Bonds on Insurers’ Capital Requirements under Solvency II
(2015-02-01)
The Liikanen Group proposes contingent convertible (CoCo) bonds as a potential mechanism to enhance financial stability in the banking industry. Especially life insurance companies could serve as CoCo bond holders as they ...
Insurance Activities and Systemic Risk
(2015-12-01)
This paper investigates systemic risk in the insurance industry. We first analyze the systemic contribution of the insurance industry vis-à-vis other industries by applying 3 measures, namely the linear Granger causality ...