CEO Overconfidence and Shadow-Banking Life Insurer Performance Under Government Purchases of Distressed Assets

Autor: Shi Chen, Jyh-Horng Lin, Wenyu Yao, Fu-Wei Huang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Zdroj: Risks, Vol 7, Iss 1, p 28 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2227-9091
DOI: 10.3390/risks7010028
Popis: In this paper, we develop a contingent claim model to evaluate the equity, default risk, and efficiency gain/loss from managerial overconfidence of a shadow-banking life insurer under the purchases of distressed assets by the government. Our paper focuses on managerial overconfidence where the chief executive officer (CEO) overestimates the returns on investment. The investment market faced by the life insurer is imperfectly competitive, and investment is core to the provision of profit-sharing life insurance policies. We show that CEO overconfidence raises the default risk in the life insurer’s equity returns, thereby adversely affecting the financial stability. Either shadow-banking involvement or government bailout attenuates the unfavorable effect. There is an efficiency gain from CEO overconfidence to investment. Government bailout helps to reduce the life insurer’s default risk, but simultaneously reduce the efficiency gain from CEO overconfidence. Our results contribute to the managerial overconfidence literature linking insurer shadow-banking involvement and government bailout in particular during a financial crisis.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals
Nepřihlášeným uživatelům se plný text nezobrazuje