Life insurance convexity

Arbeitspapier

Life insurers sell savings contracts with surrender options, which allow policyholders to prematurely receive guaranteed surrender values. These surrender options move toward the money when interest rates rise. Hence, higher interest rates raise surrender rates, as we document empirically by exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in monetary policy. Using a calibrated model, we then estimate that surrender options would force insurers to sell up to 2% of their investments during an enduring interest rate rise of 25 bps per year. We show that these fire sales are fueled by surrender value guarantees and insurers' long-term investments.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-899-6114-1
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 2829

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies ; Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy ; Monetary Policy
• Thema: Life Insurance ; Liquidity Risk ; Interest Rates ; Surrender Options ; Systemic Risk

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Grochola, Nicolaus ; Gründl, Helmut ; Kubitza, Christian
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): European Central Bank (ECB)
• (wo): Frankfurt a. M.
• (wann): 2023

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.2866/998606
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/278661
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ