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Premium Calculation Implications of Reinsurance Without Arbitrage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2014

Gary G. Venter*
Affiliation:
Workers' Compensation Reinsurance Bureau, Hoboken, New Jersey
*
Workers' Compensation Reinsurance Bureau, Two Hudson Place, Hoboken, NJ 07030, U.S.A.
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Abstract

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Constraints imposed on premium calculation principles are studied under one aspect of competitive market theory: the impossibility of systematic arbitrage. Principles based on second moments or utility theory are shown to lead to arbitrage possibilities, while some other principles do not.

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Copyright © International Actuarial Association 1991

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