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Moderate- and large-deviation probabilities in actuarial risk theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2016
Abstract
A general model for the actuarial risk-reserve process as a superposition of compound delayed-renewal processes is introduced and related to previous models which have been used in collective risk theory. It is observed that non-stationarity of the portfolio ‘age-structure' within this model can have a significant impact upon probabilities of ruin. When the portfolio size is constant and the policy age-distribution is stationary, the moderate- and large-deviation probabilities of ruin are bounded and calculated using the strong approximation results of Csörg et al. (1987a, b) and a large-deviation theorem of Groeneboom et al. (1979). One consequence is that for non-Poisson claim-arrivals, the large-deviation probabilities of ruin are noticeably affected by the decision to model many parallel policy lines in place of one line with correspondingly faster claim-arrivals.
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Research supported by Office of Naval Research under contract ONR-86-K-0007.
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