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Journal Article
Central Clearing: Risks and Customer Protections
In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, the Group of Twenty (G-20) developed a regulatory reform program for derivatives contracts. This article examines the impact of the market structure change and associated customer protection frameworks on risks faced by market participants.
Working Paper
The Life Insurance Industry and Systemic Risk: A Bond Market Perspective
The 2008 financial crisis brought a focus on the potential for a large insurance firm to contribute to systemic risk. Among the concerns raised was that a negative shock to insurers could lead to a ?fire sale? of corporate bonds, a market where insurers are among the largest participants. This paper discusses the existing evidence on life insurance firms and systemic risk, with a focus on the investment grade corporate bond market. We provide some tentative evidence that life insurers tend to absorb liquidity risk by purchasing bonds when the bonds are less liquid than average. However, we do ...