A Stackelberg reinsurance-investment game under α-maxmin mean-variance criterion and stochastic volatility

Guohui Guan, Zongxia Liang and Yilun Song

Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 2024, vol. 2024, issue 1, 28-63

Abstract: This paper investigates a Stackelberg game between an insurer and a reinsurer under the α-maxmin mean-variance criterion. The insurer can purchase per-loss reinsurance from the reinsurer. With the insurer's feedback reinsurance strategy, the reinsurer optimizes the reinsurance premium in the Stackelberg game. The financial market consists of cash and stock with Heston's stochastic volatility. Both the insurer and reinsurer maximize their respective α-maxmin mean-variance preferences in the market. The criterion is time-inconsistent and we derive the equilibrium strategies by the extended Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. Similar to the non-robust case in [Li, D. & Young, V. R. (2022). Stackelberg differential game for reinsurance: mean-variance framework and random horizon. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 102, 42–55.], excess-of-loss reinsurance is the optimal form of reinsurance strategy for the insurer. The equilibrium investment strategy is determined by a system of Riccati differential equations. Besides, the equations determining the equilibrium reinsurance strategy and reinsurance premium rate are given semi-explicitly, which is simplified to an algebraic equation in a specific example. Numerical examples illustrate that the game between the insurer and reinsurer makes the insurance more radical when the agents become more ambiguity averse or risk averse. Furthermore, the level of ambiguity, ambiguity attitude, and risk attitude of the insurer (reinsurer) have similar effects on the equilibrium reinsurance strategy, reinsurance premium, and investment strategy.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/03461238.2023.2208583

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