Optimal control of investment, premium and deductible for a non-life insurance company

Bent Jesper Christensen, Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez, Rafael Serrano

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)384-405
Number of pages21
JournalInsurance: Mathematics and Economics
Volume101
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2021

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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