 Global consistent or market-oriented? A quantitative assessment of RBC standards, solvency II, and C-ROSSShuyan Liu, Ruo Jia, Yulong Zhao and Qixiang Sun Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2019, vol. 57, issue C Abstract: This paper reports large-scale inconsistency among the three solvency capital requirements (SCRs) — RBC standards, Solvency II, and C-ROSS. We show that the inconsistency in regulators' risk assessment is driven by the different portfolio structure among insurance markets. We construct three stylized asset portfolios and insurance portfolios to capture the three largest non-life insurance markets — the U.S., the European Union, and China. We estimate the SCRs for each stylized portfolio under the three solvency systems. The SCR inconsistency is economically large in terms of the overall SCRs, the solvency ratios, and the weights of SCR components for risk (sub-)modules. We find that regulators tend to charge a higher SCR to a large asset class and to a small insurance line of business. Our results suggest that the effective solvency systems are market oriented, and the attempt to move the market oriented SCRs towards a global consistent one may distort local regulation at costs. Keywords: Financial regulation; Capital requirement; Risk-based capital; Solvency; Insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:pacfin:v:57:y:2019:i:c:s0927538x18302427 DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2018.10.002 Access Statistics for this article Pacific-Basin Finance Journal is currently edited by K. Chan and S. Ghon Rhee More articles in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal from Elsevier |
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