Download or read book The Economics, Regulation, and Systemic Risk of Insurance Markets written by Felix Hufeld and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1. The economics of insurance and the macroeconomic role of insurance -- What is insurance and how does it differ from general finance? / Christian Thimann -- The macroeconomic role of insurance / Denis Kessler, Amélie de Montchalin, and Christian Thimann -- How the insurance industry manages risk / Denis Duverne and John Hele -- pt. 2. Financial stability and the possibilities of systemic risk -- Risks of life insurers : recent trends and transmission mechanisms / Ralph S.J. Koijen and Motohiro Yogo -- Measuring systemic risk for insurance companies / Viral V. Acharya, Thomas Philippon, and Matthew Richardson -- Measuring interest rate risk in the life insurance sector : the U.S. and the U.K. / Daniel Hartley, Anna Paulson and Richard J. Rosen -- pt. 3. Regulation -- How the insurance industry's asset portfolio responds to regulation / Bo Becker -- Spillover effects of risk regulation on the asset side to asset markets / Andrew Ellul, Chotibhak Jotikasthira, and Christian T. Lundblad -- A regulatory framework for systemic risk in the insurance industry / Felix Hufeld -- pt. 4. Open questions going forward from the insurance sector -- The big questions for the insurance sector : findings from a survey of insurance companies / Luca Pancaldi and Uwe Stegemann