 Dependence bounds for the difference of stop-loss payoffs on the difference of two random variablesHamza Hanbali, Jan Dhaene and Daniel Linders Abstract: This paper considers the difference of stop-loss payoffs where the underlying is a difference of two random variables. The goal is to study whether the comonotonic and countermonotonic modifications of those two random variables can be used to construct upper and lower bounds for the expected payoff, despite the fact that the payoff function is neither convex nor concave. The answer to the central question of the paper requires studying the crossing points of the cdf of the original difference with the cdfs of its comonotonic and countermonotonic transforms. The analysis is supplemented with a numerical study of longevity trend bonds, using different mortality models and population data. The numerical study reveals that for these mortality-linked securities the three pairs of cdfs generally have unique pairwise crossing points. Under symmetric copulas, all crossing points can reasonably be approximated by the difference of the marginal medians, but this approximation is not necessarily valid for asymmetric copulas. Nevertheless, extreme dependence structures can give rise to bounds if the layers of the bond are selected to hedge tail risk. Further, the dependence uncertainty spread can be low if the layers are selected to hedge median risk, and, subject to a trade-off, to hedge tail risk as well. Date: 2025-08 Published in Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Volume 107, November 2022, Pages 22-37 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:arx:papers:2508.12606 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Papers from arXiv.org |
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