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| 題名: | Liquidity transformation: an examination of US life insurers |
| 作者: | Ho, Chia-Ling |
| 關鍵詞: | Equity capital;Liquidity risk;Life insurer;Liquidity creation |
| 日期: | 2016-11-30 |
| 上傳時間: | 2017-02-14 02:10:12 (UTC+8) |
| 出版者: | Emerald Publishing Limited |
| 摘要: | Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, this paper measures how much liquidity is transformed by the US life insurance industry for the sample period; and Second, this study tests the “risk absorption” hypothesis and “financial fragility-crowding out” hypothesis to identify the impact of capital on liquidity creation in the US life insurance industry. In addition, a regression model is conducted to explore the relationship between liquidity creation and other firm characteristics.
Design/methodology/approach
– In order to construct the liquidity creation measures, all assets and liabilities are classified as liquid, semi-liquid, or illiquid with appropriate weights to these classifications, which will then be combined to measure the amount of liquidity creation. In addition, a regression model is analyzed. The level of insurers’ liquidity creation is regressed on the capital ratio (surplus over total assets) and other financial and organizational variables to test two prevailing hypotheses.
Findings
– This paper finds that the US life insurers de-create liquidity. The authors provide that the amount of liquidity de-creation is related to the size of insurers such that liquidity de-creation has increased as assets grow and that large insurers de-create most of liquidity. The US life insurance industry de-created $2.1 trillion in liquidity, i.e., 43 percent of total industry assets, in 2008. The empirical results support the “financial fragility-crowding out” hypothesis. Life insurers’ liquidity de-creation is mainly caused by the large portion of liquid assets, which is required by regulation and capital is not a main factor of liquidity de-creation.
Originality/value
– There is no known study on the issue of liquidity creation by life insurers. Thus, the extent of liquidity creation by the life insurance industry, if any, is an empirical matter to investigate, but also an important matter to regulators and the academia since the products and business operations (e.g. asset portfolio and asset and liability management) of life insurers are different from those of property and liability insurers. |
| 關聯: | Managerial Finance 42(7), pp.618-634 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/MF-11-2015-0302 |
| 顯示於類別: | [風險管理與保險學系] 期刊論文
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