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Risk Measures and Capital Requirements: A Critique of the Solvency II Approach

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  • Alberto Floreani

    (Department of Economics and Business Administration, Faculty of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Gemelli, 1, Milano 20123, Italy.)

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In this paper the Solvency II VaR-based capital requirement is analysed and discussed. The new European risk-based system of prudential regulation for insurers could in fact increase, and not decrease, the fragility of the insurance industry. More specifically, the VaR capital requirement exposes insurance companies to a potentially huge systemic effect, as the bigger/better diversified insurers have high default probabilities in case of market shortfalls. This paper shall suggest and discuss some adjustments to the current Solvency II framework.

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  • Alberto Floreani, 2013. "Risk Measures and Capital Requirements: A Critique of the Solvency II Approach," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 38(2), pages 189-212, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gpprii:v:38:y:2013:i:2:p:189-212
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    1. Lee, Hangsuck & Choi, Hyung-Suk & Ha, Hongjun, 2020. "A sharing mechanism of investment outcome for interest-sensitive life insurance products," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 54(C).
    2. Meier, Samira & Rodriguez Gonzalez, Miguel & Kunze, Frederik, 2021. "The global financial crisis, the EMU sovereign debt crisis and international financial regulation: lessons from a systematic literature review," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).
    3. Vsevolod Malinovskii, 2020. "Value-at-Risk substitute for non-ruin capital is fallacious and redundant," Papers 2005.05428, arXiv.org.
    4. Laudagé, Christian & Sass, Jörn & Wenzel, Jörg, 2022. "Combining multi-asset and intrinsic risk measures," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 106(C), pages 254-269.
    5. Laurens Swinkels & David Blitz & Winfried Hallerbach & Pim Vliet, 2018. "Equity Solvency Capital Requirements - What Institutional Regulation Can Learn from Private Investor Regulation," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 43(4), pages 633-652, October.

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