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Catastrophic risks and the pricing of catastrophe equity put options
2021
Computational Management Science
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In this paper, after a review of the most common financial strategies and products that insurance companies use to hedge catastrophic risks, we study an option pricing model based on processes with jumps ...
Given the importance that catastrophe equity put options (CatEPuts) have in this context, we introduce a pricing approach that provides not only a theoretical contribution whose applicability remains confined ...
The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Bank of Italy. ...
doi:10.1007/s10287-021-00391-y
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Innovations in Managing Catastrophe Risk
1997
Journal of Risk and Insurance
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But the stage has been set for an unbundling of insurance products with insurers retaining marketing underwriting and settlement services and risk bearing by-passing the reinsurance industry and being ...
The arrival of the modelers and their models is eroding the comparative information advantage of insurers and reinsurers and opening the door to new players. ...
The market value of the post-loss equity sold to the counter-party will be less than its purchase price under the put option if the option is in the money. ...
doi:10.2307/253893
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Financial Innovation in the Management of Catastrophe Risk
1997
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance
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But the stage has been set for an unbundling of insurance products with insurers retaining marketing underwriting and settlement services and risk bearing by-passing the reinsurance industry and being ...
The arrival of the modelers and their models is eroding the comparative information advantage of insurers and reinsurers and opening the door to new players. ...
The market value of the post-loss equity sold to the counter-party will be less than its purchase price under the put option if the option is in the money. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1745-6622.1997.tb00149.x
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Valuation of insurers' contingent capital with counterparty risk and price endogeneity
2013
Journal of Banking & Finance
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Our results on the focal contingent capital instrument -catastrophe equity put option (CatEPut) -indicate that prices can be significantly overestimated without considering CR and be significantly underestimated ...
to value insurers' contingent capital with counterparty risk (CR) and overcomes the problem of price endogeneity (PE) in the valuation model. ...
The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the National Science Council of Taiwan for the financial support provided for this study. ...
doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2013.09.007
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A Well-Designed Implement for Promoting Population Health and Property via Insurance
2022
Frontiers in Public Health
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The frequency and intensity of catastrophes (including natural disasters and pandemics) rise and damage the population's health, life and property more seriously. ...
We analyze the changes in catastrophic insurer's capital structures under three cases of that the volume-based charges to the PCIS may come from equity holders or policyholders or both. ...
t E Q [(A t -L t ) + ], corresponds to the value of the put option with underlying price A t and strike price L t . ...
doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.766003
pmid:35174131
pmcid:PMC8841659
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Pricing of Catastrophe Risk and the Implied Volatility Smile
2016
Social Science Research Network
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This paper analyzes the relation between catastrophe risk and the implied volatility smile of insurance stock options. ...
We are able to link the insurance-specific tail risk component derived from options with the risk spread from catastrophe bonds. ...
This price dynamic is known as the reinsurance cycle and a well-known phenomenon for increasing reinsurance prices after catastrophes to make up for the incurred losses. This pricing com- ...
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2827585
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The Theory of Catastrophe Risk Financing: A Look at the Instruments that Might Transform the Insurance Industry
2007
Geneva papers on risk and insurance. Issues and practice
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Taken all together, the intention is that risk financing should be able to release assets committed to liabilities, and should reduce the cost of risk capital in sponsoring all-purpose equity. ...
The current study reviews the risk financing techniques employed in the insurance markets and looks at the changing field of the risk management arena. ...
(Catastrophic equity puts). ...
doi:10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510127
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Catastrophe options with stochastic interest rates and compound Poisson losses
2006
Insurance, Mathematics & Economics
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We analyze the pricing and hedging of catastrophe put options under stochastic interest rates with losses generated by a compound Poisson process. ...
We obtain explicit closed form formulae for the price of the option, and the hedging parameters Delta, Gamma and Rho. ...
Acknowledgements The authors thank Sheldon X. Lin and an anonymous referee for useful comments and suggestions which ultimately enhanced the presentation of the paper. ...
doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2005.11.008
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Risk transfer solutions for the insurance industry
2009
Ekonomski Anali
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The paper focuses on the traditional and alternative mechanisms for insurance risk transfer that are available to global as well as to domestic insurance companies. ...
The findings suggest that traditional insurance risk transfer solutions available to insurance industry nowadays will be predominant in the foreseeable future but the increasing role of alternative solutions ...
This puts enable insurers and reinsurers to raise capital by issuing equities at a pre-agreed price after the occurrence of the catastrophic event. ...
doi:10.2298/eka0980057n
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On the Relative Pricing of Long-Maturity Index Options and Collateralized Debt Obligations
2012
Journal of Finance
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We investigate a structural model of market and firm-level dynamics in order to jointly price long-dated S&P 500 options and tranche spreads on the five-year CDX index. ...
We demonstrate the importance of calibrating the model to match the entire term structure of CDX index spreads because it contains pertinent information regarding the timing of expected defaults and the ...
This is because the strike prices of traded options do not span far enough in the moneyness dimension to identify the (risk neutral) probabilities of catastrophic crashes. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.2012.01779.x
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Valuation of contingent convertible catastrophe bonds - the case for equity conversion
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2018
arXiv
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We begin with a discussion of its design and compare its relative merits to catastrophe bonds and catastrophe-equity puts. ...
Subsequently, we derive analytical valuation formulae for index-linked CocoCats under the assumption of independence between natural catastrophe and financial markets risks. ...
Acknowledgments We are extremely grateful for the input of and insights offered by Peter Ouwehand as well as David Taylor ...
arXiv:1804.07997v1
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Convergence of Insurance and Financial Markets: Hybrid and Securitized Risk-Transfer Solutions
2009
Journal of Risk and Insurance
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Convergence has been driven by the increase in the frequency and severity of catastrophic risk, market inefficiencies created by (re)insurance underwriting cycles, advances in computing and communications ...
technologies, the emergence of enterprise risk management, and other factors. ...
An early contingent capital transaction, issued over-the-counter by Aon Corporation, was called a "CAT-E-Put," an abbreviation for "catastrophic equity put option." ...
doi:10.1111/j.1539-6975.2009.01311.x
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SECURITIZATION AS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY OF MANAGING THE RISK OF CATASTROPHIC EVENTS
2019
НОВИ ЕКОНОМИСТ
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For thisreason insurers have sought alternative ways ofcovering these extreme losses, and one of them, atransfer of the risk of insurance to the capitalmarkets represents the main subject of thisresearch ...
The lack of available coverage ofthese risks in the market, due to the insolvency orunwillingness of insurers to ensure catastrophicevents, can significantly impede the economicrecovery and development ...
Catastrophe equity puts are structured in the form of a path option that allows an insurer to sell an investor's share in share capital at pre-agreed prices when catastrophic damage exceeds the level defined ...
doi:10.7251/noe1824024m
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Should the Government Provide Insurance for Catastrophes?
2006
Review
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Catastrophic events, and particularly mega-catastrophes such as Katrina and the WTC terrorist attack, violate to some degree nearly all of the standard conditions for insurability. ...
The increasing costs of catastrophes have significantly stressed insurance markets. ...
Besides the Chicago Board of Trade options and CAT bonds, other capital market solutions to the problem of financing catastrophic loss have been introduced, including catastrophe equity puts (Cat-E-Puts ...
doi:10.20955/r.88.337-380
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Catastrophe risk management with counterparty risk using alternative instruments
2010
Insurance, Mathematics & Economics
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Second, this paper looks into the price of catastrophe futures and spread option contracts that are based on a catastrophe index. ...
Third, this paper takes counterparty risk into account to value catastrophe bonds and catastrophe equity puts. Thus, the fair valuations of these two instruments are revealed to the buyer. ...
Since the literature seldom simultaneously take mean reversion and credit contagion into the risk management and pricing model, this article uses the model to re-estimate catastrophe insurance contracts ...
doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2010.04.002
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