Special Issue "Extreme Events: Mortality Modelling and Insurance"

Dear Colleagues,

The world population has experienced a steady increase in life expectancy through the twentieth century. However, population events such as extreme weather, pandemics, natural disasters, and wars cause jumps that have an immediate impact on mortality rates. Recent experiences such as the COVID-19 pandemic and heatwaves have proved that these extreme events can produce heterogeneous effects on populations, considering different age groups, sexes, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, etc. There has been an increase in the frequency, magnitude, and duration of natural disasters over the last 50 years, and rising global temperatures have particularly caused many diseases and deaths. The occurrence of catastrophic/extreme events, the large number of deaths, as well as unexpected death claims have financial consequences for insurance companies. In fact, these catastrophic events increase the credit risk and threaten the solvency of insurance companies, and even countries. The financial impacts of these risks on solvency require effective risk management.

This Special Issue welcomes state-of-the-art research papers related but not limited to mortality/excess mortality modelling and risk management in insurance, including the effects of extreme events on mortality, valuation of insurance and annuity products, hedging mortality/longevity risks, pricing of mortality-linked and longevity-linked securities, solvency, credit risk, counterparty default risk, financial liquidity, derivatives and asset management.

Dr. Sule Sahin
Guest Editor

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• mortality/excess-mortality modelling
• extreme events and insurance risk
• mortality/longevity risk
• hedging
• credit risk
• financial risk management
• COVID-19
• pandemics