Asset Insulators

Asset pricing and the bid-ask spread

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Andra Ghent and Valentin Haddad

The Review of Financial Studies, 2021, vol. 34, issue 3, 1509-1539

Abstract: We construct a new data set tracking the daily value of life insurers’ assets at the security level. Outside of the 2008–2009 crisis, a1 drop in the market value of assets reduces an insurer’s market equity by0.10. During the ?nancial crisis, this pass-through rises to1. We explain this pattern by viewing insurance companies as asset insulators, institutions with stable, long-term liabilities that can ride out transitory dislocations in market prices. Illustrating the macroeconomic importance of insulation, insurers’ market equity declined by 50 billion less than the duration-adjusted value of their securities during the crisis.

JEL-codes: G14 G22 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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