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Finite-time ruin probabilities under large-claim reinsurance treaties for heavy-tailed claim sizes

Part of: Limit theorems Mathematical modeling, applications of mathematics Mathematical economics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2020

Hansjörg Albrecher ,
Bohan Chen ,
Eleni Vatamidou  and
Bert Zwart
Hansjörg Albrecher
Affiliation:
University of Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute
Bohan Chen
Affiliation:
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
Eleni Vatamidou
Affiliation:
University of Lausanne
Bert Zwart
Affiliation:
CWI and Eindhoven University of Technology
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Abstract

We investigate the probability that an insurance portfolio gets ruined within a finite time period under the assumption that the r largest claims are (partly) reinsured. We show that for regularly varying claim sizes the probability of ruin after reinsurance is also regularly varying in terms of the initial capital, and derive an explicit asymptotic expression for the latter. We establish this result by leveraging recent developments on sample-path large deviations for heavy tails. Our results allow, on the asymptotic level, for an explicit comparison between two well-known large-claim reinsurance contracts, namely LCR and ECOMOR. Finally, we assess the accuracy of the resulting approximations using state-of-the-art rare event simulation techniques.

Keywords

finite-time ruin probabilities large deviations heavy tails large-claim reinsurance ECOMOR

MSC classification

Primary: 91B30: Risk theory, insurance
Secondary: 60F10: Large deviations 97M30: Financial and insurance mathematics
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Research Papers
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , June 2020 , pp. 513 - 530
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© Applied Probability Trust 2020

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