The purpose of this article is to value some life insurance contracts in a stochastic interest rate environment taking into account the default risk of the underlying insurance company. The participating life insurance contracts considered here can be expressed as portfolios of barrier options...

In this paper, we construct new valuation schemes for the liabilities and economic capital of insurance companies. Specifically, we first build a valuation framework based on SAHARA utility functions, and second we construct a framework based on the cumulative prospect theory that incorporates...

While a lot of research concentrates on the respective merits of VaR and TCE, which are the two most classic risk indicators used by financial institutions, little has been written on the equivalence between such indicators. Further, TCE, despite its merits, may not be the most accurate...

We investigate the impact of counterparty risk on contract design in the reinsurance market. We study a multiplicative default risk model, with partial recovery and where the probability of the reinsurer's default depends on the loss incurred by the insurer. The seller is assumed to be...

Insurance activities cannot be solely based on pooling arguments as issued policies share common risk drivers which can be hard to diversify. These risks can be transferred from insurers to reinsurers. We describe the reinsurance market and discuss the demand for reinsurance. Moral hazard issues...