 Longevity bond pricing under stochastic interest rate and mortality with regime-switchingYang Shen and Tak Kuen Siu Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2013, vol. 52, issue 1, 114-123 Abstract: We develop a flexible model to value longevity bonds which incorporates several important sources of risk, namely, interest rate risk, mortality risk and the risk due to structural changes in economic and environmental conditions. In particular, Markov, regime-switching, jump-diffusion models are used to describe stochastic movements of short-term interest rate and force of mortality. These models capture jumps in short rate and mortality rate and the impacts of economic and environmental fundamentals on their movements over time. Using the concept of stochastic flows, we derive an exponential affine form of the longevity bond price in the proposed joint stochastic interest rate and mortality models. In particular, a representation for the exponential affine form of the longevity bond price is obtained in terms of fundamental matrix solutions of linear, matrix-valued, ordinary differential equations. Keywords: Longevity bond; Stochastic interest rate; Stochastic mortality; Regime switching; Stochastic flows; Exponential affine form (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:insuma:v:52:y:2013:i:1:p:114-123 DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2012.11.006 Access Statistics for this article Insurance: Mathematics and Economics is currently edited by R. Kaas, Hansjoerg Albrecher, M. J. Goovaerts and E. S. W. Shiu More articles in Insurance: Mathematics and Economics from Elsevier |
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