Optimal reinsurance with multiple reinsurers: Distortion risk measures, distortion premium principles, and heterogeneous beliefs

Tim J. Boonen and Mario Ghossoub

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2021, vol. 101, issue PA, 23-37

Abstract: This paper unifies the work on multiple reinsurers, distortion risk measures, premium budgets, and heterogeneous beliefs. An insurer minimizes a distortion risk measure, while seeking reinsurance with finitely many reinsurers. The reinsurers use distortion premium principles, and they are allowed to have heterogeneous beliefs regarding the underlying probability distribution. We provide a characterization of optimal reinsurance indemnities, and we show that they are of a layer-insurance type. This is done both with and without a budget constraint, i.e., an upper bound constraint on the aggregate premium. Moreover, the optimal reinsurance indemnities enable us to identify a representative reinsurer in both situations. Finally, two examples with the Conditional Value-at-Risk illustrate our results.

Keywords: Optimal reinsurance design; Distortion risk measures; Distortion premium principle; Heterogeneous beliefs; Multiple reinsurers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D86 G22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2020.06.008

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