Modeling catastrophe claims with left-truncated severity distributions (extended version)

Anna Chernobai, Krzysztof Burnecki, Svetlozar Rachev, Stefan Trueck () and Rafał Weron

No HSC/05/01, HSC Research Reports from Hugo Steinhaus Center, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Abstract: In this paper, we present a procedure for consistent estimation of the severity and frequency distributions based on incomplete insurance data and demonstrate that ignoring the thresholds leads to a serious underestimation of the ruin probabilities. The event frequency is modelled with a non-homogeneous Poisson process with a sinusoidal intensity rate function. The choice of an adequate loss distribution is conducted via the in-sample goodness-of-fit procedures and forecasting, using classical and robust methodologies.

Keywords: Natural catastrophe; Property insurance; Loss distribution; Truncated data; Ruin probability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C16 C24 G22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2005
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Published (shorter version) in Computational Statistics 21(3-4) (2006) 537-555.

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