Anastasia Kartasheva
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Kartasheva
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Anastasia
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Item type:Publication, Building economic resilience to pandemic risk in Switzerland(2025-03-23); ;Pascucci, EleonoraThis paper examines the scope for pandemic insurance in Switzerland, addressing the residual revenue losses faced by firms despite comprehensive fiscal and monetary policies during COVID-19. While these policies provided critical support, they failed to fully mitigate revenue declines from government-imposed business interruptions. We highlight how pandemic insurance could reduce firms' exposure to revenue shocks and lessen reliance on costly interventions. Drawing insights from the Swiss Elemental Pool, a successful framework of risk-pooling for natural catastrophes, we explore its applicability to pandemic risks. Given the systemic nature of pandemics, we argue that intertemporal risk-sharing, capital accumulation, and risk transfer to financial markets can support a viable public–private partnership (PPP) for pandemic insurance. While conceptually promising, such a PPP requires further empirical evaluation of costs, benefits, and policy interactions. A well-designed framework could enhance resilience to future pandemics and reduce the economic burden of ex-post interventions.Type:journal articleJournal:Risk Management and Insurance ReviewVolume:28Issue:1Scopus© Citations 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The Credit Suisse CoCo wipeout: Facts, misperceptions, and lessons for financial regulation(2023) ;Bolton, Patrick ;Jiang, WeiType:journal article - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk(Oxford University Press, 2022-06-17) ;Ellul, Andrew ;Jotikasthira, Pab; ;Lundblad, ChristianWagner, WolfType:journal articleJournal:Review of Financial StudiesVolume:35Issue:12Scopus© Citations 24 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Insurability of Pandemic RisksType:journal articleJournal:Journal of Risk and InsuranceVolume:88Issue:4Scopus© Citations 25 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, CoCo Bonds Issuance and Bank Fragility(Elsivier, 2020-06) ;Avdjiev, Stefan ;Bogdanova, Bilyana ;Bolton, Patrick ;Jiang, WeiThe promise of contingent convertible capital securities (CoCos) as a ”bail-in” solution has been the subject of considerable theoretical analysis and debate, but little is known about their effects in practice. We undertake the first comprehensive empirical analysis of bank CoCo issues, a market segment that comprises over 730 instruments totaling $521 billion. Four main findings emerge: (1) the propensity to issue a CoCo is higher for larger and better capitalized banks; (2) CoCo issues result in a statistically significant decline in issuers’ CDS spread, indicating that they generate risk-reduction benefits and lower costs of debt (this is especially true for CoCos that convert into equity, have mechanical triggers, and are classified as Additional Tier 1 instruments); (3) CoCos with only discretionary triggers do not have a significant impact on CDS spreads; and (4) CoCo issues have no statistically significant impact on stock prices, except for principal write-down CoCos with a high trigger level, which have a positive effect.Type:journal articleJournal:Journal of Financial EconomicsScopus© Citations 47 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, CoCos: A Primer(Bank For International Settlements, 2015-09-15) ;Avdjiev, Stefan ;Bogdanova, BilyanaType:journal articleJournal:BIS Quarterly Review - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Information Effect of Entry into Credit Ratings Market: The Case of Insurers’ RatingsThe paper analyzes the effect of competition between credit rating agencies (CRAs) on the information content of ratings. We show that a monopolistic CRA pools sellers into multiple rating classes and has partial market coverage. This provides an opportunity for market entry. The entrant designs a rating scale distinct from that of the incumbent. It targets higher-than-average companies in each rating grade of the incumbent's rating scale and employs more stringent rating standards. We use Standard and Poor's (S&P) entry into the market for insurance ratings previously covered by a monopolist, A.M. Best, to empirically test the impact of entry on the information content of ratings. The empirical analysis reveals that S&P required higher standards to assign a rating similar to the one assigned by A.M. Best and that higher-than-average quality insurers in each rating category of A.M. Best chose to receive a second rating from S&P.Type:journal articleJournal:Journal of Financial EconomicsVolume:106Issue:2Scopus© Citations 72 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Design of Investment Promotion PoliciesOver the last 20 years, developing countries have experienced the massive shift of financing and the operation of infrastructure from the public to the private sector. The paper analyzes how the government agency should structure the investment promotion policy. I develop a sequential contracting model between the government, investors and infrastructure providers and derive several properties of the optimal policy. The policy leaves investors uncertain about the project type and prescribes different levels of government support, in the form of tax or price distortions. However, the optimal policy does not change the expectations of investors about distribution of project returns. I characterize how the optimal policy depends on the revenue generation preferences of the government and the profitability of infrastructure projects in the country.Type:journal articleJournal:International Journal of Industrial OrganizationVolume:30Issue:2Scopus© Citations 5 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, The supply of cyber risk insurance(2024-08-29); ; Cyber risk losses are large and growing, yet the cyber insurance market is small. What constraints the insurance industry from providing larger capacity for cyber risk? We argue that while heavy tails and uncertain loss distribution of cyber risk require significant amounts of external contingent capital, the asymmetric information embedded in insuring cyber risk makes external capital prohibitively costly. Hence, risk financing of cyber insurers relies significantly on the internal capital which constraints its supply. We model the cyber insurance risk financing and then test our arguments empirically in the context of the US cyber insurance market. Using an exogenous shock of the non-US affiliated reinsurance tax treatment in 2017, we establish the causal inference that insurers primarily rely on the internal capital market to supply cyber risk insurance. Then, we test which of the features of cyber risk contribute to the cost of external capital and confirm that all of them play a significant role.Type:conference paper