In contrast to insurance companies, regulatory authorities or regulators can obtain only limited information about the companies' value. It hence leads to some effects on the regulation design, which is however often overlooked in the literature. This paper characterizes the limited/imperfect...

This paper develops a general theory of irreversible investment of a single firm that chooses a dynamic capacity expansion plan in an uncertain environment. The model is set up free of any distributional or any parametric assumptions and hence encompasses all the existing models. As the first...

In this paper, we consider the net loss of a life insurance company issuing identical equity-linked pure endowment contracts in the case of periodic premiums. Under this construction, financial risks as well as the mortality risk are included. Based on Møller (1998), we particularly investigate...

With the gradual deepening of aging, the medical and pension problems of the half-disabled and disabled elderly will become increasingly prominent. Policymakers, academics, and the public at large shed extensive concerns about the cost of aging societies. Although long-term care (LTC) insurance...

The purpose of this paper is to conduct a market-consistent valuation of life insurance participating liabilities sold to a population of partially heterogeneous customers under the joint impact of biometric and financial risk. In particular, the heterogeneity between groups of policyholders...

Developed countries apply different security mechanisms in regulation to protect pension benefits: solvency requirements, a pension guarantee fund, and sponsor support. We compare these mechanisms for a generalized form of hybrid pension schemes. We calculate the expected log return for the...

Developed countries apply different security mechanisms in regulation to protect defined pension benefits: solvency requirements, a pension guarantee fund, and sponsor support. We test the performance of these mechanisms in terms of the protection offered to pension benefits in relation to the...

In this paper we derive an analytic valuation formula for a generalized form of liabilities in hybrid pension plans taking account of both equity and interest rate risk. Comparative statistics are carried out to show the relevance of some key parameters in defining the hybrid pension plans,...

Contemporary pension plans are often a mixture of defined benefit and defined contribution plans. This paper explores the valuation of a generalized form of liabilities in hybrid pension plans taking account of both equity and interest rate risk. We derive an analytic valuation formula for the...