Kevin Dowd

City University London - Sir John Cass 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 - Sir John Cass 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 - Sir John Cass 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 - Sir John Cass 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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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 - Sir John Cass 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 - Sir John Cass 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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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 - Sir John Cass 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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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 - CREATES, Aarhus University, City, University of London and City University London - Sir John Cass Business School
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Affluence index, Danish mortality data, CBD-X model, gravity model

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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 - Sir John Cass 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 - Sir John Cass 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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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, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Heriot-Watt University - Department of Actuarial Science & Statistics, City, University of London and City University London - Sir John Cass Business School
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Longevity hedging, longevity index, longevity basis risk, stochastic mortality, two populations, hedge effectiveness

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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 - Sir John Cass 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 - Sir John Cass 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 - Sir John Cass 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 - Sir John Cass 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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