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Insurance Options: Beating the Benchmark. Are Catastrophe Bonds more profitable than Corporate Bonds? || Opciones de seguros: superando la referencia. ¿Son más rentables los bonos catástrofe que los bonos corporativos?

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  • Caro Barrera, José Rafael

    (Dept. of Statistics, Econometrics, Operational Research and Applied Economics. University of Córdoba (Spain))

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In this paper, we establish a comparison between one of the most traded financial derivatives in the markets, the so-called catastrophe bonds (abbreviated as cat bonds) and the corporate bonds. In the first section, we start from a brief definition as well as some basic concepts. In section two, we will enumerate the type of investors to whom these products might interesting and how to price them. Afterwards, in section three we move onto the analysis of the trading rule proposed, that is, the comparison with Corporate bonds, our benchmark, in terms of expected returns. In sections four and five, we will point out some key issues on how the credit risk associated to these products can be reduced and, finally, in the last section, we will conclude with some discussions and remark the state-of-the-art research on this field. || En este artículo establecemos una comparación entre uno de los derivados financieros más negociados en los mercados, los llamados bonos catástrofe (abreviados como bonos CAT) y los bonos corporativos. En la primera sección comenzamos con una breve definición y algunos conceptos básicos. En la sección dos, enumeraremos el tipo de inversores para quienes estos productos pueden ser interesantes y cómo se podría fijar el precio. Posteriormente, en la sección tres, pasamos al análisis de la regla de negociación propuesta, es decir, la comparación con los bonos corporativos, nuestro punto de referencia, en términos de rentabilidad esperada. En las secciones cuatro y cinco señalaremos, respectivamente, algunas cuestiones clave sobre cómo se puede reducir el riesgo de crédito asociado a estos productos y, finalmente, en la última sección, concluiremos con algunas discusiones y comentaremos las investigaciones más recientes sobre este tema.

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  • Caro Barrera, José Rafael, 2020. "Insurance Options: Beating the Benchmark. Are Catastrophe Bonds more profitable than Corporate Bonds? || Opciones de seguros: superando la referencia. ¿Son más rentables los bonos catástrofe que los b," Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y la Empresa = Journal of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business Administration, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Quantitative Methods for Economics and Business Administration, vol. 29(1), pages 3-17, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:pab:rmcpee:v:29:y:2020:i:1:p:3-17
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    Keywords

    catastrophe bonds; corporate bonds; risk securitization; risk transferring; structured product; insurance-linked securities; reinsurance risk; derivatives pricing; credit risk; bonos catástrofe; bonos corporativos; titulización del riesgo; transferencia de riesgo; productos estructurados; valores vinculados a seguros; riesgo de reaseguro; precios de derivados; riesgo de crédito.;
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    JEL classification:

    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading

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