Many quantities of interest in the study of renewal processes may be expressed as the solution to a special type of integral equation known as a renewal equation. The main purpose of this paper is to provide bounds for the solution of renewal equations based on various reliability...

We consider an equity-linked contract whose payoff depends on the lifetime of the policy holder and the stock price. We provide the best strategy for an insurance company assuming limited capital for the hedging. The main idea of the proof consists in reducing the construction of such strategies...

We propose a nonparametric multiplicative bias corrected transformation estimator designed for heavy tailed data. The multiplicative correction is based on prior knowledge and has a dimension reducing effect at the same time as the original dimension of the estimation problem is retained. Adding...

This paper is concerned with multivariate phase-type distributions introduced by Assaf et al. (1984). We show that the sum of two independent bivariate vectors each with a bivariate phase-type distribution is again bivariate phase-type and that this is no longer true for higher dimensions....

In this paper, we generalize the Cramér-Lundberg risk model perturbed by diffusion to incorporate jumps due to surplus fluctuation and to relax the positive loading condition. Assuming that the surplus process has exponential upward and arbitrary downward jumps, we analyze the expected...

In a general Sparre Andersen risk model with surplus-dependent premium income, the generalization of Gerber-Shiu function proposed by Cheung et al. (2010a) is studied. A general expression for such Gerber-Shiu function is derived, and it is shown that its determination reduces to the...

In this paper, we use tools from the theory of partially ordered normed linear spaces, especially the bases of cones. This work extends the well-known results for convex and coherent risk measures. Its linchpin consists in the replacement of the riskless bond by some interior point in the cone...

Recent developments in ruin theory have seen the growing popularity of jump diffusion processes in modeling an insurer's assets and liabilities. Despite the variations of technique, the analysis of ruin-related quantities mostly relies on solutions to certain differential equations. In this...

In this paper, we show a characterization of upper comonotonicity via tail convex order. For any given marginal distributions, a maximal random vector with respect to tail convex order is proved to be upper comonotonic under suitable conditions. As an application, we consider the computation of...

It is well known that if a random vector with given marginal distributions is comonotonic, it has the largest sum in the sense of the convex order. Cheung (2008) proved that the converse of this assertion is also true, provided that all marginal distribution functions are continuous and that the...