We consider the optimal dividends problem for a company whose cash reserves follow a general Lévy process with certain positive jumps and arbitrary negative jumps. The objective is to find a policy which maximizes the expected discounted dividends until the time of ruin. Under appropriate conditions, we use some recent results in the theory of potential analysis of subordinators to obtain the c...

We consider the classical risk model with subexponential claim size distribution. Three methods are presented to simulate the probability of ultimate ruin and we investigate their asymptotic efficiency. One, based upon a conditional Monte Carlo idea involving the order statistics, is shown to be asymptotically efficient in a certain sense. We use the simulation methods to study the accuracy of ...

Classical risk process models in insurance rely on independency. However, especially when modelling natural events, this assumption is very restrictive. This paper proposes a new approach to introducing dependency structures between events into the model and investigates its effects on a crucial parameter for insurance companies, the probability of ruin. Explicit formulas, numerical simulations...

Much research in ruin theory in insurance mathematics focuses on the behaviour of various quantities of interest, such as the probability of ruin or the ruin-time moments, for a particular risk model in insurance. In practice, precise knowledge of the risk model is available only via observed data. In this presentation, the problem of statistical estimation of the quantities of interest, given ...

In this paper; survival (non-ruin) probability after a definite time period of an insurance company is studied in a discrete time model based on nonhomogenous claim occurrences. Furthermore, distributions of the minimum and maximum levels of surplus in compound binomial risk model with nonhomogeneous claim occurrences are obtained and some of its characteristics are given.

The computation of ruin probability is an important problem in the collective risk theory. It has applications in the fields of insurance, actuarial science, and economics. Many mathematical models have been introduced to simulate business activities and ruin probability is studied based on these models. Two of these models are the classical risk model and the Cox model. In the classical model,...