A Bayesian non-parametric model for small population mortality

Hong Li () and Yang Lu

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Abstract: This paper proposes a Bayesian non-parametric mortality model for a small population, when a benchmark mortality table is also available and serves as part of the prior information. In particular, we extend the Poisson-gamma model of Hardy and Panjer to incorporate correlated and age-specific mortality coefficients. These coefficients, which measure the difference in mortality levels between the small and the benchmark population, follow an age-indexed autoregressive gamma process, and can be stochastically extrapolated to ages where the small population has no historical exposure. Our model substantially improves the computation efficiency of existing two-population Bayesian mortality models by allowing for closed form posterior mean and variance of the future number of deaths, and an efficient sampling algorithm for the entire posterior distribution. We illustrate the proposed model with a life insurance portfolio from a French insurance company.

Keywords: credibility; Autoregressive gamma; two-population mortality model; parameter uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 2018, 2018 (7), pp.605-628. ⟨10.1080/03461238.2017.1418420⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/03461238.2017.1418420

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