Risk-adjusted credibility premiums using distorted probabilities

Shaun Wang and Virginia Young

Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 1998, vol. 1998, issue 2, 143-165

Abstract: Denneberg (1990) and Wang (1996a) propose that one calculate risk-adjusted insurance premiums as the expectation with respect to a distorted probability measure, a non-additive set function. This premium principle is supported by the theories of decision making of Yaari (1987) and of Schmeidler (1989). Denneberg (1994a) presents three conditioning rules for updating non-additive set functions in light of available information. In this work, we show how to apply these three update rules to calculate a risk-adjusted credibility premium and, thereby, combine credibility theory with this relatively new premium principle. Our main result is that, for some pairs of distortion function and update rule, one gets the same risk-adjusted credibility premium by distorting the predictive probability distribution, as required by the theory of Yaari, or by updating the distorted probability, as required by the theory of Schmeidler.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1080/03461238.1998.10413999

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