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

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 correlati...

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Veröffentlicht in:Insurance, mathematics & economics mathematics & economics, 2021-11, Vol.101, p.384-405
Hauptverfasser: Christensen, Bent Jesper, Parra-Alvarez, Juan Carlos, Serrano, Rafael
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:0167-6687
1873-5959
DOI:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2021.07.005