This paper considers an optimal investment and reinsurance problem involving a defaultable security for an insurer under the mean-variance criterion in a jump-diffusion risk model. The insurer is allowed to purchase proportional reinsurance or acquire new business and invest in a financial...

This paper documents vanilla interest-rate options (caps, floors and swaptions) newly introduced in China. The underlying rates are the RMB loan prime rates (LPRs), the foremost interest rates that matter to almost all businesses and households in China. They are digital with a tick size of five...