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Hampus Engsner: Multi-period valuation of insurance liabilities subject to capital requirements

Tid: Må 2018-12-03 kl 13.00

Plats: Room 306, House 6, Kräftriket, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University

Licentiand: Hampus Engsner, SU , Mathematics

Granskare: Hansjörg Albrecher (University of Lausanne)

Huvudhandledare: Filip Lindskog, SU

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Abstract:

In the papers presented here, approaches to multi-period valuation of a liability cashflow in runoff, subject to repeated capital requirements, are developed and analyzed. The valuation approaches are inspired by current risk-based regulatory frameworks for the insurance industry, and consistent with the fundamental principles underlying them. The capital requirements are partly financed by capital providers with limited liability, meaning that the capital providers cannot lose more than the provided capital. Limited liability is an essential ingredient in the considered multi-period valuation framework.

In the first paper, multi-period cost-of-capital valuation is considered. The liability value is defined in terms of the capital provider’s criterion for accepting to provide capital which gives rise to a backward recursion from which the liability value can be computed. Explicit solutions to the recursion are obtained when the cashflows can be expressed in terms of multivariate Gaussian distributions.

The second paper recognizes that due to limited liability (an option to default) the cashflow to the capital provider can be seen as that of a financial derivative instrument with optionality. Arbitrage-free valuation of this cashflow, similar to the valuation of so-called American type contingent claims, forms the basis of the multi-period approach to liability cashflow valuation considered here. The issue of selection of a replicating portfolio for offsetting the hedgeable part
of the liability cashflow is investigated.

The first two papers consider cashflows and valuations at a fixed set of times to be interpreted as the years from current time until the runoff of the liability is complete. In the third paper, the valuation and cashflow times are allowed to be arbitrary in the form of an arbitrary partition of the entire runoff period. The focus here is to properly define and analyze the effects of letting the mesh of the partition tend to zero, exploring the continuous-time value processes that appear.