The Limits of Market-Based Risk Transfer and Implications for Managing Systemic Risks

50 Pages Posted: 31 Oct 2006

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Todd Groome

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Nicolas Blancher

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Francois P. Haas

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

John Kiff

Satoshi Capital Advisors; Sovereign Official Digital Association (SODA)

Date Written: September 2006

Abstract

The paper discusses the limits to market-based risk transfer in the financial system and the implications for the management of systemic long-term financial risks. Financial instruments or markets to transfer and better manage these risks across institutions and sectors are, as yet, either nascent or nonexistent. As such, the paper investigates why these markets remain "incomplete". It also explores a range of options by which policymakers may encourage the development of these markets as part of governments' role as a risk manager.

Keywords: Risk transfer, systemic risk, insurance markets, supervision, regulation

JEL Classification: G20, G18, G22, G23, G28, G32, H55

Suggested Citation

Groome, Todd and Blancher, Nicolas and Haas, Francois P. and Kiff, John, The Limits of Market-Based Risk Transfer and Implications for Managing Systemic Risks (September 2006). IMF Working Paper No. 06/217, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=941279

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Nicolas Blancher

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Francois P. Haas

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