This paper analyzes how Value at Risk (VaR), a risk measure, can be used to calculate contributions to a life insurance guaranty fund. The paper shows that this measure can be a first step towards taking risk and solidity into account when determining how much each insurer should contribute to...

In the past, life insurance companies were mainly exposed to mortality risk, a risk they in principle could diversify by issuing a large number of similar and statistically independent policies. However, as more exotic life insurance policies have been offered, such as unit‐linked life...

This paper develops a generalization of the linear quadratic control problem with partial information. As in the standard partial information setting, it is assumed that the state variable is only observed with noise. The idea in this paper is that the information level may be chosen optimally....

We study how optimal bank capital and bond risk are influenced by asset encumbrance, depositor preference, and bail-in resolution frameworks. Due to changes in optimal capital structure, the net effect on bond debt risk and valuation is small. The effects on shareholder value and public sector...

We present a simple model for risky, corporate debt. Debtholders and equityholders have incomplete information about the financial state of the debt issuing company. Information is incomplete because it is delayed for all agents, and it is asymmetrically distributed between debtholders and...

Many real-world financial contracts have some sort of minimum rate of return guarantee included. One class of these guarantees is so-called relative guarantees, i.e., guarantees where the minimum guaranteed rate of return is given as a function of the stochastic return on a reference portfolio....