Date of Award
5-8-2006
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Risk Management and Insurance
First Advisor
Dr, Sam Cox - Chair
Abstract
This is a multi–essay dissertation in the area of mortality risk management. The first essay investigates natural hedging between life insurance and annuities and then proposes a mortality swap between a life insurer and an annuity insurer. Compared with reinsurance, capital markets have a greater capacity to absorb insurance shocks, and they may offer more flexibility to meet insurers’ needs. Therefore, my second essay studies securitization of mortality risks in life annuities. Specifically I design a mortality bond to transfer longevity risks inherent in annuities or pension plans to financial markets. By explicitly taking into account the jumps in mortality stochastic processes, my third essay fills a gap in the mortality securitization modeling literature by pricing mortality securities in an incomplete market framework. Using the Survey of Consumer Finances, my fourth essay creates a new financial vulnerability index to examine a household’s life cycle demand for different types of life insurance.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1059046
Recommended Citation
Lin, Yijia, "Mortality Risk Management." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2006.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1059046