TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimal control of investment, premium and deductible for a non-life insurance company
AU - Christensen, Bent Jesper
AU - Parra-Alvarez, Juan Carlos
AU - Serrano, Rafael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - A risk-averse insurance company controls its reserve, modeled as a perturbed Cramér-Lundberg process, by choice of both the premium p and the deductible K offered to potential customers. The surplus is allocated to financial investment in a riskless and a basket of risky assets potentially correlating with the insurance risks and thus serving as a partial hedge against these. Assuming customers differ in riskiness, increasing p or K reduces the number of customers n(p,K) and increases the arrival rate of claims per customer λ(p,K) through adverse selection, with a combined negative effect on the aggregate arrival rate n(p,K)λ(p,K). We derive the optimal premium rate, deductible, investment strategy, and dividend payout rate (consumption by the owner-manager) maximizing expected discounted lifetime utility of intermediate consumption under the assumption of constant absolute risk aversion. Closed-form solutions are provided under specific assumptions on the distributions of size and frequency of claims.
AB - A risk-averse insurance company controls its reserve, modeled as a perturbed Cramér-Lundberg process, by choice of both the premium p and the deductible K offered to potential customers. The surplus is allocated to financial investment in a riskless and a basket of risky assets potentially correlating with the insurance risks and thus serving as a partial hedge against these. Assuming customers differ in riskiness, increasing p or K reduces the number of customers n(p,K) and increases the arrival rate of claims per customer λ(p,K) through adverse selection, with a combined negative effect on the aggregate arrival rate n(p,K)λ(p,K). We derive the optimal premium rate, deductible, investment strategy, and dividend payout rate (consumption by the owner-manager) maximizing expected discounted lifetime utility of intermediate consumption under the assumption of constant absolute risk aversion. Closed-form solutions are provided under specific assumptions on the distributions of size and frequency of claims.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2021.07.005
DO - 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2021.07.005
M3 - Research Article
AN - SCOPUS:85113785093
SN - 0167-6687
VL - 101
SP - 384
EP - 405
JO - Insurance: Mathematics and Economics
JF - Insurance: Mathematics and Economics
ER -