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

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  • Bent Jesper Christensen

    (Aarhus University, CREATES and the Dale T. Mortensen Center)

  • Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez

    (Aarhus University and CREATES)

  • Rafael Serrano

    (Universidad del Rosario)

Abstract

A risk-averse insurance company controls its reserve, modelled 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 ?(p,K) through adverse selection, with a combined negative effect on the aggregate arrival rate n(p,K)?(p,K). We derive the optimal premium rate, deductible, investment strategy, and dividend payout rate (consumption by the owner-manager) maximizing expected discounted life-time 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 claims.

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  • Bent Jesper Christensen & Juan Carlos Parra-Alvarez & Rafael Serrano, 2020. "Optimal control of investment, premium and deductible for a non-life insurance company," CREATES Research Papers 2020-11, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
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    Stochastic optimal control; Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation; Jump-diffusion; Adverse selection; Premium control; Deductible control; Optimal investment strategy.;
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    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
    • C60 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - General
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design

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