The economics, regulation, and systemic risk of insurance markets /

Despite the importance of insurance in enabling individual and collective social, economic and financial activities, discussions about the macro-economic role and risks of insurance markets are surprisingly limited. The core motivation for publishing this book is to bring together academics, regulat...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hufeld, Felix (Editor), Koijen, Ralph S. J. (Editor), Thimann, Christian (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: I. The Economics of Insurance and the Macroeconomic Role of Insurance
  • 1. What is Insurance and How Does it Differ from General Finance? / Christian Thimann
  • 2. The Macroeconomic Role of Insurance / Denis Kessler, Amelie de Montchalin, and Christian Thimann
  • 3. How the Insurance Industry Manages Risk / Denis Duverne and John Hele
  • Part II: Financial Stability and the Possibilities of Systemic Risk
  • 4. Risks of Life Insurers: Recent Trends and Transmission Mechanisms / Ralph Koijen and Motohiro Yogo
  • 5. Measuring Systemic Risk for Insurance Companies / Viral Acharya, Thomas Philippon, and Matthew Richardson
  • 6. Measuring Interest Rate Risk in the Life Insurance Sector: The US and the UK / Anna Paulson and Richard Rosen
  • Part III: I. Regulation
  • 7. How the Insurance Industry's Asset Portfolio Responds to Regulation / Bo Becker
  • 8. Spillover Effects from Risk Regulation on the Asset Side to Asset Markets / Andrew Ellul, Pab Jotikasthira, and Christian Lundblad
  • 9. A Regulatory Framework for Systemic Risk in the Insurance Industry / Felix Hufeld
  • Part IV: Open Questions Going Forward from Regulators and the Insurance Sector
  • 10. The Big Questions for the Insurance Sector: Findings from a Survey of Insurance Companies.