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題名 The choice of trigger in an insurance linked security: The mortality risk case
作者 MacMinn, Richard
Richter, Andreas
貢獻者 風險管理與保險學系
關鍵詞 Alternative risk transfer ; Insurance ; Default risk ; Mortality based security ; Index trigger ; Indemnity trigger
日期 2018
上傳時間 30-Jan-2018 15:17:57 (UTC+8)
摘要 In 2003, Swiss Re introduced a mortality-based security designed to hedge excessive mortality changes for its life book of business. The concern was mortality risk, i.e., the risk of premature death. The mortality risk due to a pandemic is similar to the property risk associated with catastrophic events such as earthquakes and hurricanes and the security used to hedge the risk is similar to a CAT bond. This work looks at the incentives associated with insurance linked securities. It considers the trade-offs an insurer or reinsurer faces in selecting a hedging strategy. We compare index and indemnity-based hedging as alternative design choices and ask which is capable of creating the greater value for stakeholders. Additionally, we model an insurer or reinsurer that is subject to insolvency risk, which creates an incentive problem known as the judgment proof problem. The corporate manager is assumed to act in the interests of shareholders and so the judgment proof problem yields a conflict of interest between shareholders and other stakeholders. Given the fact that hedging may improve the situation, the analysis addresses what type of hedging tool would be best. We show that an indemnity-based security tends to worsen the situation, as it introduces an additional incentive problem. Index-based hedging, on the other hand, under certain conditions turns out to be beneficial and therefore dominates indemnity-based strategies. This result is further supported by showing that for the same sufficiently small strike price the current shareholder value is greater with the index-based security than the indemnity-based security.
關聯 INSURANCE MATHEMATICS & ECONOMICS, 78, 174-182
資料類型 article
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.insmatheco.2017.09.018
dc.contributor 風險管理與保險學系-
dc.creator (作者) MacMinn, Richarden_US
dc.creator (作者) Richter, Andreasen_US
dc.date (日期) 2018-
dc.date.accessioned 30-Jan-2018 15:17:57 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 30-Jan-2018 15:17:57 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 30-Jan-2018 15:17:57 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/115652-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) In 2003, Swiss Re introduced a mortality-based security designed to hedge excessive mortality changes for its life book of business. The concern was mortality risk, i.e., the risk of premature death. The mortality risk due to a pandemic is similar to the property risk associated with catastrophic events such as earthquakes and hurricanes and the security used to hedge the risk is similar to a CAT bond. This work looks at the incentives associated with insurance linked securities. It considers the trade-offs an insurer or reinsurer faces in selecting a hedging strategy. We compare index and indemnity-based hedging as alternative design choices and ask which is capable of creating the greater value for stakeholders. Additionally, we model an insurer or reinsurer that is subject to insolvency risk, which creates an incentive problem known as the judgment proof problem. The corporate manager is assumed to act in the interests of shareholders and so the judgment proof problem yields a conflict of interest between shareholders and other stakeholders. Given the fact that hedging may improve the situation, the analysis addresses what type of hedging tool would be best. We show that an indemnity-based security tends to worsen the situation, as it introduces an additional incentive problem. Index-based hedging, on the other hand, under certain conditions turns out to be beneficial and therefore dominates indemnity-based strategies. This result is further supported by showing that for the same sufficiently small strike price the current shareholder value is greater with the index-based security than the indemnity-based security.en_US
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dc.relation (關聯) INSURANCE MATHEMATICS & ECONOMICS, 78, 174-182-
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Alternative risk transfer ; Insurance ; Default risk ; Mortality based security ; Index trigger ; Indemnity triggeren_US
dc.title (題名) The choice of trigger in an insurance linked security: The mortality risk caseen_US
dc.type (資料類型) article-
dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2017.09.018-
dc.doi.uri (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.insmatheco.2017.09.018-