manage systematic mortality risks, namely self-insurance and risk transfer to purchasers of the annuity products. We …, saving, and portfolio allocation patterns given stochastic and systematic mortality. Insurers have taken two approaches to … demonstrate that self-insurance leads to high loadings, so that households offered a choice would favor the risk transfer scheme …

Value at Risk has become the standard measure of market risk employed by financial institutions for both internal and … methodologies developed so far give satisfactory solutions. Interpreting Value at Risk as a quantile of future portfolio values … assumptions invoked by existing methodologies (such as normality or i.i.d. returns). The Conditional Value at Risk or CAViaR model …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the risk of trading revenues of U.S. commercial banks. We collect … quarterly data on trading revenues, broken down by business line, as well as the Value at Risk-based market risk charge. The … across business lines. These low correlations do not corroborate systemic risk concerns. Neither is there evidence that the …

markets, focusing on the US, the UK, and Japan. Our results help assess the extent to which life insurers can hedge mortality …

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has phased in the Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) risk … beneficiary's health status. However, it is debatable whether the CMS-HCC model has led to strategic evolutions of risk selection …. We examine the competing claims and analyze the risk selection behavior of MA plans in response to the CMS-HCC model. We …

We model the equilibrium price and quantity of risk transfer between firms and financial intermediaries. Value …-maximizing firms have downward sloping demands to cede risk, while intermediaries, who assume risk, provide less …

While the traditional view of financial innovation emphasizes the risk sharing role of new financial assets, belief …. This paper investigates the effect of financial innovation on portfolio risks in an economy when both the risk sharing and … provide hedging services but they are also subject to speculation because traders do not necessarily agree about their payoffs …

. Dynamically spread-weighting and risk-rebalancing positions improves performance. Equity, bond, FX, volatility, and downside … of our carry trades are not significantly different from unconditional betas. Hedging with options reduces but does not …

options in defined contribution retirement plans. We document large differences in realized TDF returns and risk profiles … reflects optimal risk-taking by fund families with low market share, especially those entering the market after 2006. Using … plan-level data, we find little evidence that 401(k) plan sponsors match the risk profile of the TDFs in their plans to the …

Assessing the importance of uninsurable wage risk for individual financial choices faces two challenges. First, the … identification of the marginal effect requires a measure of at least one component of risk that cannot be diversified or avoided …. Moreover, measures of uninsurable wage risk must vary over time to eliminate unobserved heterogeneity. Second, evaluating the …