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Type Conference Presentation
Scope Contributions to practice
Title Evolutionary Portfolio Selection With Liquidity Shocks
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Enrico De Giorgi
Presentation Type speech
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Event Title Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, Kos, Greece, June 21, 2007.
Event Type conference
Event Location Kos, Greec
Event Start Date June 21 - 2007
Event End Date June 21 - 2007
Abstract Text The wealth dynamics of insurance companies strongly depends on the success of their investment strategies, but also on liquidity shocks which occur during unfavorable years, when indemnities to be paid to the clients exceed collected premia. An investment strategy that does not take liquidity shocks into account, exposes insurance companies to the risk of bankruptcy. This paper analyzes the behavior of insurance companies in an evolutionary framework. We show that an insurance company that merely satisfies regulatory constraints will eventually vanish from the market. We give a more restrictive no-bankruptcy condition for the investment strategies and we characterize trading strategies that are evolutionary stable, i.e., able to drive out any mutation. We study the existence of such strategies and the conditions under which financial and insurance markets are stable.
Official URL http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=555723
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Additional Information also presented at: 11th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA, June 24, 2005