We study the dividend optimization problem for a company where surplus in the absence of dividend payments follows a Cramér–Lundberg process compounded by constant force of interest. The company controls the times and amounts of dividend payments subject to reserve constraints that dividends...

In this paper, we construct a new insurance risk model based on the entrance process and consider the asymptotic behavior of the risk process under the ultimate stability condition on the intensity of the entrance process. We find when the claim size has finite second moment the risk process is...

In this paper, we study a Markov regime-switching risk model where dividends are paid out according to a certain threshold strategy depending on the underlying Markovian environment process. We are interested in these quantities: ruin probabilities, deficit at ruin and expected ruin time. To...

This paper analyzes the continuity and differentiability of several classes of ruin functions under Markov-modulated insurance risk models with a barrier and threshold dividend strategy, respectively. Many ruin related functions in the literature, such as the expectation and the Laplace...

We investigate whether mutual funds engage in tax planning by testing how they respond to changes in the capital gains tax rates. While previous evidence suggests that individual investors time capital gains realizations, mutual fund managers may not tax plan like individuals because fund...

While theory suggests that dividends can be an important signal for firm performance, prior studies have been unable to provide strong evidence of dividend signaling among publicly listed U.S. companies. One potential explanation for this inconsistency between theory and empirical evidence is...