Insurance Value of International Reserves: An Option Pricing Approach
September 1, 2004
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Summary
A quantitative framework is developed to bring forward the insurance motive of holding international reserves. The insurance value of reserves is quantified as the market price of an equivalent option that provides the same insurance coverage as the reserves. This quantitative framework is applied to calculating the cost of a regional insurance arrangement (e.g., an Asian Monetary Fund) and to analyzing one leg of an optimal reserve-holding decision.
Subject: Asset and liability management, Asset prices, Asset valuation, Central banks, Financial institutions, Insurance, International reserves, Options, Prices
Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Asset prices, Asset valuation, coverage ratio, coverage ratio decrease, Global, insurance, insurance value, interest rate, International reserves, market value, option, option price, Options, put option, reserve coverage ratio rise, reserve holding, Reserves, underlying asset, WP
Pages:
28
Volume:
2004
DOI:
Issue:
175
Series:
Working Paper No. 2004/175
Stock No:
WPIEA1752004
ISBN:
9781451858785
ISSN:
1018-5941
