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Optimal Control of Investment for an Insurer in Two Currency Markets

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  • Qianqian Zhou
  • Junyi Guo

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In this paper, we study the optimal investment problem of an insurer whose surplus process follows the diffusion approximation of the classical Cramer-Lundberg model. Investment in the foreign market is allowed, and therefore, the foreign exchange rate model is considered and incorporated. It is assumed that the instantaneous mean growth rate of foreign exchange rate price follows an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Dynamic programming method is employed to study the problem of maximizing the expected exponential utility of terminal wealth. By soloving the correspoding Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations, the optimal investment strategies and the value functions are obtained. Finally, numerical analysis is presented.

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  • Qianqian Zhou & Junyi Guo, 2020. "Optimal Control of Investment for an Insurer in Two Currency Markets," Papers 2006.02857, arXiv.org.
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