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On Risk Model with Dividends Payments Perturbed by a Brownian Motion – An Algorithmic Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2015

Esther Frostig
Esther Frostig*
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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Assume that an insurance company pays dividends to its shareholders whenever the surplus process is above a given threshold. In this paper we study the expected amount of dividends paid, and the expected time to ruin in the compound Poisson risk process perturbed by a Brownian motion. Two models are considered: In the first one the insurance company pays whatever amount exceeds a given level b as dividends to its shareholders. In the second model, the company starts to pay dividends at a given rate, smaller than the premium rate, whenever the surplus up-crosses the level b. The dividends are paid until the surplus down-crosses the level a, a < b . We assume that the claim sizes are phase-type distributed. In the analysis we apply the multidimensional Wald martingale, and the multidimensional Asmussesn and Kella martingale.

Keywords

Wald martingalestopping timeoptional sampling theoremKella and Whitt martingale
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ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , May 2008 , pp. 183 - 206
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