Arbitrage and Viability in Insurance Markets

Anja De Waegenaere ()

The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 2000, vol. 25, issue 1, 99 pages

Abstract: Insurance markets are subject to transaction costs and constraints on portfolio holdings. Therefore, unlike the frictionless asset markets case, viability is not equivalent to absence of arbitrage possibilities. We use the concept of unbounded arbitrage to characterize viable prices on a complete and an incomplete insurance market. In the complete market, there is an insurance contract for every possible event. In the incomplete market, risk can be insured through proportional and excess of loss like insurance contracts. We show how the the structure of viable prices is affected by the portfolio constraints, the transaction costs, and the structure of marketed contracts. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory (2000) 25, 81–99. doi:10.1023/A:1008701608588

Date: 2000
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