Monotonicity properties and the deficit at ruin in the Sparre Andersen model

Georgios Psarrakos and Konstadinos Politis

Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 2009, vol. 2009, issue 2, 104-118

Abstract: Let Hu(y) be the (proper) distribution function of the deficit at ruin, given that ruin occurs with initial surplus u, in the Sparre Andersen model of risk theory. Dickson & dos Reis (1996) discussed the monotonicity of Hu(y) as a function of u. In this paper, we obtain various monotonicity results for Hu(y) and other related quantities for the decreasing/increasing failure rate (DFR/IFR) and the increasing/decreasing mean residual lifetime (IMRL/DMRL) classes of distributions. These results in particular extend and make more concrete the results of Dickson & dos Reis (1996) and Willmot & Lin (1998). A new class of distributions (increasing convolution ratio; ICR) is introduced. This class extends the well-known class of distributions with IFR. Specifically, we show that if the ladder height distribution F in the model is ICR, the ratio is a non-decreasing function of u, where ψ(u) denotes the ruin probability and . Further, we obtain generalizations (expressed in terms of the distribution of the deficit) of the well-known new worse than used (NWU) property of the probability of non-ruin.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/03461230802022169

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