How risky are life insurers?

Systemic risk has been a cause for growing concern since the onset of the Global Crisis. Andrew Ellul explains his research on the lending side of systemic risk creation, which address the types of investments financial institutions make. These investments have shifted towards equity markets, which are riskier and less liquid, and more interconnected - all of which amplifies risk in crisis.

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Topics:  Financial markets Global crisis

Tags:  global crisis, insurance, investment, financial markets, foreign currency lending

Andrew Ellul

Professor of Finance and and Fred T. Greene Chair in Finance, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

Events

  • China Economics Summer Institute (CESI)
    17 - 18 August 2019 / Peking University, Beijing / Chinese University of Hong Kong – Tsinghua University Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy, the Institute for Emerging Market Studies at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development at Stanford University, the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, BREAD, NBER and CEPR
  • CALL FOR PAPER - Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets
    19 - 20 August 2019 / Vienna, Palais Coburg / WU Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK)
  • SALENTO MACRO MEETINGS 2019
    29 - 30 August 2019 / Galatina, Italy /
  • Sustainable Development Conference 2019
    4 - 5 September 2019 / Roma Eventi, Congress Center, Pontificia Università Gregoriana Piazza della Pilotta, 4, Rome, Italy / European Center of Sustainable Development , CIT University
  • CIMS Summer School and Conference 2019
    9 - 14 September 2019 / Guildford, Surrey, UK / The University of Surrey

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