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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Optimal risk-sharing across a network of insurance companies
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Authors
  • Nicolas Ettlin
  • Erich Walter Farkas
  • Andreas Kull
  • Alexander Smirnow
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper
Number 20-52
Date 2020
Abstract Text Risk transfer is a key risk and capital management tool for insurance companies. Transferring risk between insurers is used to mitigate risk and manage capital requirements. We investigate risk transfer in the context of a network environment of insurers and consider capital costs and capital constraints at the level of individual insurance companies. We demonstrate that the optimisation of profitability across the network can be achieved through risk transfer. Considering only individual insurance companies, there is no unique optimal solution and, a priori, it is not clear which solutions are fair. However, from a network perspective, we derive a unique fair solution in the sense of cooperative game theory. Implications for systemic risk are briefly discussed.
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