Pablo Koch-Medina

University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance

Professor of Finance and Insurance

Plattenstrasse 14

Zürich, 8032

Switzerland

Swiss Finance Institute

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c/o University of Geneva

40, Bd du Pont-d'Arve

CH-1211 Geneva 4

Switzerland

  • University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance

  • Swiss Finance Institute

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1.

Measuring Risk with Multiple Eligible Assets

Mathematics and Financial Economics, 9 (2015)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2015
Walter Farkas, Pablo Koch-Medina and Cosimo Munari
University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance and University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance
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risk measures, multiple eligible assets, acceptance sets, dual representations, set-valued risk measures, superhedging with shortfall risk, optimal risk sharing

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Asset-Liability Management for Long-Term Insurance Business

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 17-69
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2018
Hansjoerg Albrecher, Daniel Bauer, Paul Embrechts, Damir Filipović, Pablo Koch-Medina, Ralf Korn, Stéphane Loisel, Antoon Pelsser, Frank Schiller, Hato Schmeiser and Joël Wagner
University of Lausanne, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance, University of Kaiserslautern - Department of Mathematics, University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Institute of Finance and Insurance Science (ISFA), Maastricht University, MunichRe, University of Münster - Faculty of Economics and University of Lausanne - Department of Actuarial Science (HEC Lausanne)
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asset-liability management, long-term insurance, valuation, insurance products, investments, models

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Insurance: Models, Digitalization, and Data Science

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 19-26
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 03 May 2019 Last Revised: 09 May 2019
Hansjoerg Albrecher, Antoine Bommier, Damir Filipović, Pablo Koch-Medina, Stéphane Loisel and Hato Schmeiser
University of Lausanne, ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance, University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Institute of Finance and Insurance Science (ISFA) and University of Münster - Faculty of Economics
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The Valuation of Insurance Liabilities: A Framework Based on First Principles

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 20-03
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2020
Andrea Bergesio, Paul Huber, Pablo Koch-Medina and Lutz Wilhelmy
University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance, Swiss Re, University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance and Swiss Re
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Insurance, Valuation, Financial Frictions, Market Consistency, Solvency II

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Capital Requirements with Defaultable Securities

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 55 (2014), Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 13-66
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014
Walter Farkas, Pablo Koch-Medina and Cosimo Munari
University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance and University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance
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acceptance sets, eligible asset, risk measures, capital adequacy, capital efficiency, Value-at-Risk, Tail Value-at-Risk

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Beyond Cash-Additive Risk Measures: When Changing the Numeraire Fails

Finance Stochastics, 18(1), 145-173 (2014), Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 13-67
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 May 2012 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014
Walter Farkas, Pablo Koch-Medina and Cosimo Munari
University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance and University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance
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risk measures, acceptance sets, general eligible assets, defaultable bonds, cash subadditivity, quasiconvexity, Value-at-Risk, Tail Value-at-Risk, shortfall risk

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Unexpected Shortfalls of Expected Shortfall: Extreme Default Profiles and Regulatory Arbitrage

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2015
Pablo Koch-Medina and Cosimo Munari
University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance and University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance
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expected shortfall, value-at-risk, financial regulation, tail behaviour, default behaviour

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Capital Levels and Risk-Taking Propensity in Financial Institutions

Accounting and Finance Research, 3 (1), 85-89, (2014) , Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 13-33
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 08 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2020
Giovanni Barone-Adesi, Walter Farkas and Pablo Koch-Medina
University of Lugano, University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance and University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance
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risk propensity, net tangible value, default option, franchise value

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Old-Age Provision: Past, Present, Future

European Actuarial Journal, Forthcoming, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 16-55
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2016
Hansjoerg Albrecher, Paul Embrechts, Damir Filipović, Glenn W. Harrison, Pablo Koch-Medina, Stéphane Loisel, Paolo Vanini and Joël Wagner
University of Lausanne, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business, University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance, University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Institute of Finance and Insurance Science (ISFA), University of Basel and University of Lausanne - Department of Actuarial Science (HEC Lausanne)
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Pension funding gap, Demographic and societal challenges, Valuation of pension liabilities, Economic and regulatory capital models, Role of financial markets

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Capital Adequacy Tests and Limited Liability of Financial Institutions

Journal of Banking & Finance, 51 (2015)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2015
Pablo Koch-Medina, Santiago Moreno-Bromberg and Cosimo Munari
University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance and University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance
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surplus invariance, limited liability, capital adequacy, risk measures, loss-based risk measures, shortfall risk measures, excess invariance

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Value-at-Risk vs. Expected Shortfall: Beware of the Aggregation Currency!

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 22 May 2014
Peter Antal and Pablo Koch-Medina
Swiss Reinsurance Company and University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance
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risk measures, Value-at-Risk, expected shortfall, exchange rates, capital adequacy

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Currency Risk in Capital Adequacy

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 28 Feb 2014
Pablo Koch-Medina and Enrique Loubet
University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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risk measures, foreign exchange risk, currency risk, capital adequacy, acceptance sets

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Revisiting Optimal Investment Strategies of Value-Maximizing Insurance Firms

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 04 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2021
Pablo Koch-Medina, Santiago Moreno-Bromberg, Claudia Ravanelli and Mario Sikic
University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance, Center for Finance and Insurance and University of Zurich
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Insurance Firm, Default Option, Franchise Value, Dividend Payments, Investment Strategy, Market-Consistent Valuation

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Equilibria in the CAPM with Nontradeable Endowments

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 23 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2015
Pablo Koch-Medina and Jan Wenzelburger
University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance and University of Liverpool - Management School (ULMS)
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Portfolio choice, CAPM, Non-tradeable Endowments, Risk Aversion

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Limited Liability and the Demand for Coinsurance by Individuals and Corporations

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 21-57
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 May 2021 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2021
Andrea Bergesio, Pablo Koch-Medina and Cosimo Munari
University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance, University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance and University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance
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insurance, risk-averse agent, risk-neutral firm, franchise value, limited liability