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title: Insurance Companies and Liquidity Shocks
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4494559/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4494559
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4494559
featured: 2023-07-05
citations: unknown
topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
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# Insurance Companies and Liquidity Shocks

Insurance companies contribute to economic downturns by spreading liquidity shocks, leading to low GDP and high unemployment.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4494559
- Identifier: SSRN 4494559
- Released: 2020-08-26
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 6 (2023-07-05): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-07-05/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution

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