Ellul, Andrew
[VerfasserIn];
Jotikasthira, Chotibhak
[VerfasserIn];
Kartasheva, Anastasia
[VerfasserIn];
Lundblad, Christian T.
[VerfasserIn];
Wagner, Wolf
[VerfasserIn]
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Medientyp:
E-Book;
Bericht
Titel:
Insurers as asset managers and systemic risk
Beteiligte:
Ellul, Andrew
[VerfasserIn];
Jotikasthira, Chotibhak
[VerfasserIn];
Kartasheva, Anastasia
[VerfasserIn];
Lundblad, Christian T.
[VerfasserIn];
Wagner, Wolf
[VerfasserIn]
Erschienen:
Frankfurt a. M.: European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), European System of Financial Supervision, 2018
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Beschreibung:
Financial intermediaries often provide guarantees that resemble out-of-the-money put options, exposing them to tail risk. Using the U.S. life insurance industry as a laboratory, we present a model in which variable annuity (VA) guarantees and associated hedging operate within the regulatory capital framework to create incentives for insurers to overweight illiquid bonds ("reach-for-yield"). We then calibrate the model to insurer-level data, and show that the VA-writing insurers' collective allocation to illiquid bonds exacerbates system-wide fire sales in the event of negative asset shocks, plausibly erasing up to 20-70% of insurers' equity capital.