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. Typically, they are also equipped with a surrender option that allows the policyholder to terminate the contract prior to … maturity, receiving a predetermined surrender value. The option interacts with (often cliquet-style) interest guarantees that … are a key feature of traditional participating contracts. Surrender options can considerably affect an insurer …
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Low interest rates are becoming a threat to the stability of the life insurance industry, especially in countries such as Germany, where products with relatively high guaranteed returns sold in the past still represent a prominent share of the total portfolio. This contribution aims to assess...
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The main aim of this chapter is to examine the first years of the implementation of Solvency II capital requirements driven by the standard formula. The analysis covers the Polish life insurance market. Since the introduction of Solvency II in Poland, the insurance market has been challenged to...
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Households buy life insurance as part of their liquidity management. The option to surrender such a policy can serve as … household specific sociodemographic factors influence the surrender behavior of life insurance policyholders. Based on the Socio … construct a proxy to identify life insurance surrender in the data. We use this proxy to conduct fixed effect regressions and …
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