Kevin Dowd

City University London - The Business School

106 Bunhill Row

London, EC1Y 8TZ

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Capital Inadequacies: The Dismal Failure of the Basel Regime of Bank Capital Regulation

Cato Institute Policy Analysis, No. 681, July 2011
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 19 Nov 2011
Kevin Dowd, Martin O. Hutchinson and Simon G. Ashby
City University London - The Business School, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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The Coming Fiat Money Cataclysm and the Case for Gold

Cato Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2012
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Apr 2013
Kevin Dowd, Martin Hutchinson and Gordon Kerr
City University London - The Business School, Independent and Cobden Partners
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financial crisis, upcoming economic crisis, fiat money, monetary policy, currency debasement, money supply, government and money, central banking

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Longevity Hedge Effectiveness: A Decomposition

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Longevity Hedge Effectiveness: A Decomposition

Pensions Institute Discussion Paper No. PI-1106
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Dec 2011
Andrew J. G. Cairns, Kevin Dowd, David P. Blake and Guy Coughlan
Heriot-Watt University - Department of Actuarial Science & Statistics, City University London - The Business School, City, University of London and Pacific Global Advisors
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hedge effectiveness, correlation, mark-to-model, valuation model, simulation, value hedging, longevity risk, stochastic mortality, population basis risk, recalibration risk

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Still Living With Mortality: The Longevity Risk Transfer Market After One Decade

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Still Living With Mortality: The Longevity Risk Transfer Market After One Decade

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 14 Nov 2018
David P. Blake, Andrew J. G. Cairns, Kevin Dowd and Amy R. Kessler
City, University of London, Heriot-Watt University - Department of Actuarial Science & Statistics, City University London - The Business School and Prudential Retirement
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Buy-Outs; Buy-Ins; Longevity Insurance; Longevity Bonds; Longevity Swaps; q-Forwards; Tail-Risk Protection; Basis Risk; Credit Risk; Regulatory Capital; Collateral; Liquidity; Stochastic Mortality Models; Longevity Risk Premium; Longevity-Linked Securities; Reinsurance Sidecars

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Phantoms Never Die: Living with Unreliable Population Data

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Phantoms Never Die: Living with Unreliable Population Data

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Oct 2015
Andrew J. G. Cairns, David P. Blake, Kevin Dowd and Amy R. Kessler
Heriot-Watt University - Department of Actuarial Science & Statistics, City, University of London, City University London - The Business School and Prudential Retirement
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Baby boom, cohort-births-deaths exposures methodology, convexity adjustment ratio, deaths, graphical diagnostics, population data

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Math Gone Mad: Regulatory Risk Modeling by the Federal Reserve

Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 754
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 11 Oct 2014
Kevin Dowd
City University London - The Business School
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Regulatory Risk Modeling, forecasting models, risk measure, procyclicality, Fed Stress Tests, SCAP, CCA, CapRP, DFAST

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Modelling Socio-Economic Differences in Mortality Using a New Affluence Index

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 22 May 2019 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2020
Andrew J. G. Cairns, Malene Kallestrup Lamb, Carsten Rosenskjold, David P. Blake and Kevin Dowd
Heriot-Watt University - Department of Actuarial Science & Statistics, Aarhus University, Aarhus University, City, University of London and City University London - The Business School
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Affluence index, Danish mortality data, CBD-X model, gravity model

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Longevity Hedging 101: A Framework for Longevity Basis Risk Analysis and Hedge Effectiveness

North American Actuarial Journal, Volume 15, Number 2, 2011
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 Jul 2020
Guy Coughlan, Marwa Khalaf-Allah, Yijing Ye, Sumit Kumar, Andrew J. G. Cairns, David P. Blake and Kevin Dowd
Pacific Global Advisors, J.P. Morgan, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode, Heriot-Watt University - Department of Actuarial Science & Statistics, City, University of London and City University London - The Business School
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Longevity hedging, longevity index, longevity basis risk, stochastic mortality, two populations, hedge effectiveness

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CBDX: A Workhorse Mortality Model from the Cairns-Blake-Dowd Family

Pensions Institute Discussion Paper, PI-2002, January 2020
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 Mar 2020
Kevin Dowd, Andrew Cairns and David P. Blake
City University London - The Business School, affiliation not provided to SSRN and City, University of London
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mortality rates, Cairns-Blake-Dowd mortality model, CBDX mortality model

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U.S. Decapitalization, Easy Money, and Asset Price Cycles

Cato Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2011
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 16 Apr 2013
Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson
City University London - The Business School and Independent
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Asset bubbles, U.S. financial crisis, U.S. economic policy, American monetary policy, United States federal reserve bank

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Survivor Derivatives: A Consistent Pricing Framework

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Survivor Derivatives: A Consistent Pricing Framework

Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 77, Issue 3, pp. 579-596, September 2010
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 04 Aug 2010
Paul Dawson, Kevin Dowd, Andrew J. G. Cairns and David P. Blake
Kent State University, City University London - The Business School, Heriot-Watt University - Department of Actuarial Science & Statistics and City, University of London
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Survivor Derivatives: A Consistent Pricing Framework

Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 77, Issue 3, pp. 579-596, 2010
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Mar 2018
Paul Dawson, Kevin Dowd, Andrew J. G. Cairns and David P. Blake
Kent State University, City University London - The Business School, Heriot-Watt University - Department of Actuarial Science & Statistics and City, University of London
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The New Life Market

Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 80, Issue 3, pp. 501-558, 2013
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 30 Aug 2013
David P. Blake, Andrew J. G. Cairns, Guy Coughlan, Kevin Dowd and Richard D. MacMinn
City, University of London, Heriot-Watt University - Department of Actuarial Science & Statistics, Pacific Global Advisors, City University London - The Business School and National Chengchi University
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A Gravity Model of Mortality Rates for Two Related Populations

North American Actuarial Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2011
Posted: 24 Jan 2012
Kevin Dowd, Andrew J. G. Cairns, David P. Blake, Guy Coughlan and Marwa Khalaf-Allah
City University London - The Business School, Heriot-Watt University - Department of Actuarial Science & Statistics, City, University of London, Pacific Global Advisors and J.P. Morgan

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