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When Gambling for Resurrection is Too Risky

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  • Mr. Divya Kirti

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Rather than taking on more risk, US insurers hit hard by the crisis pulled back from risk taking, relative to insurers not hit as hard by the crisis. Capital requirements alone do not explain this risk reduction: insurers hit hard reduced risk within assets with identical regulatory treatment. State level US insurance regulation makes it unlikely this risk reduction was driven by moral suasion. Other financial institutions also reduce risk after large shocks: the same approach applied to banks yields similar results. My results suggest that, at least in some circumstances, franchise value can dominate, making gambling for resurrection too risky.

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  • Mr. Divya Kirti, 2017. "When Gambling for Resurrection is Too Risky," IMF Working Papers 2017/180, International Monetary Fund.
    • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2017/180
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    1. Beyer, Marcel, 2023. "Gambling for recovery? Exploring the riskiness of European insurers' assets during the Covid-19 crisis 2020," ICIR Working Paper Series 46/23, Goethe University Frankfurt, International Center for Insurance Regulation (ICIR), revised 2023.
    2. Axel Möhlmann, 2021. "Interest rate risk of life insurers: Evidence from accounting data," Financial Management, Financial Management Association International, vol. 50(2), pages 587-612, June.
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    4. José-Luis Peydró & Andrea Polo & Enrico Sette & Victoria Vanasco, 2020. "Risk Mitigating versus Risk Shifting: Evidence from Banks Security Trading in Crises," Working Papers 1219, Barcelona School of Economics.
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    6. Bai, Min & Zhang, Yuqi & Yu, Chia-Feng (Jeffrey), 2024. "Do firms gamble for resurrection from COVID-19?," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 241(C).
    7. Alejandro Drexler & Thomas B. King, 2021. "Capital Constraints and Risk Shifting: An Instrumental Approach," Working Paper Series WP-2021-13, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
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    9. John Ammer & Alexandra Tabova & Stijn Claessens, 2018. "Searching for Yield Abroad: Risk-Taking through Foreign Investment in U.S. Bonds," 2018 Meeting Papers 960, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    10. Rhys Bidder & John Krainer & Adam Shapiro, 2021. "De-leveraging or de-risking? How banks cope with loss," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 39, pages 100-127, January.
    11. Audrey Nguema Bekale & Imhotep Paul Alagidede & Jones Odei‐Mensah, 2023. "Derivatives use and the risk‐taking behaviour of African banks," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 35(7), pages 1985-2013, October.

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    JEL classification:

    • G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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