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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2018
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
ESRB Working Paper Series No. 75
Verlag: 
European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), European System of Financial Supervision, Frankfurt a. M.
Zusammenfassung: 
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.
Schlagwörter: 
Systemic risk
Financial stability
Inter-connectedness
Insurance companies
JEL: 
G11
G12
G14
G18
G22
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ISBN: 
978-92-9472-042-9
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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