| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 風險管理與保險研究所 === 103 === This paper considers the problem of valuating the default option of the life insurers that are subject to systematic financial risk in the sense that the volatility of the investment portfolio is modeled through stochastic processes. In particular, this implies that the financial risk cannot be eliminated through diversifying the asset portfolio. In our work, Heston (1993) model is employed in describing the evolution of the volatility of an underlying asset, while the instantaneous variance is a CIR process. Within this model, we study a general set of equivalent martingale measures, and determine the default option by applying these measures. In addition, we investigate the sensitivity of the default values given regulatory forbearance for the life insurance liabilities considered. Numerical examples are included, and the use of the stochastic volatility model is compared with deterministic models.
As reserve of capital is increasing, asset-liability ratio is also increasing. The liability grew up with promised interest rate, and it could be covered by the asset when the systematic risk events happened. Therefore, the default risk was decreasing, that caused the default value decreasing. When the systematic risk events happened, the value of risk was increasing, and the default value was positive skew distribution. That means the maximum loss will be coming in the extreme case. On the other hand, when prosperity economy occurred, the value of risk was decreasing, which in compliance with the law of VaR75&;CTE65 rules, and the insurance company had enough capital to face the systematic risk events.
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