The Cramér-Lundberg model with a fluctuating number of clients

Peter Braunsteins and Michel Mandjes

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2023, vol. 112, issue C, 1-22

Abstract: This paper considers the Cramér-Lundberg model, with the additional feature that the number of clients can fluctuate over time. Clients arrive according to a Poisson process, where the times they spend in the system form a sequence of independent and identically distributed non-negative random variables. While in the system, every client generates claims and pays premiums. In order to describe the model's rare-event behaviour, we establish a sample-path large-deviation principle. This describes the joint rare-event behaviour of the reserve-level process and the client-population size process. The large-deviation principle can be used to determine the decay rate of the time-dependent ruin probability as well as the most likely path to ruin. Our results allow us to determine whether the chance of ruin is greater with more or with fewer clients and, more generally, to determine to what extent a large deviation in the reserve-level process can be attributed to an unusual outcome of the client-population size process.

Keywords: Cramér-Lundberg; Large deviations; Ruin probability; Exponential tightness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C P (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2023.05.007

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