Non-Life Insurance Mathematics - A Primer by Mikosch
Contents
I Collective risk models 1
1 Models for the claim number process 2
1.1 The Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1.1 The homogeneous Poisson process, the intensity function, the Cramer-Lundberg
model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1.2 The Markov property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1.3 Relations between the homogeneous and the inhomogeneous Poisson process 6
1.1.4 The homogeneous Poisson process as a renewal process . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.1.5 The distribution of the inter-arrival times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.1.6 The order statistics property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.1.7 Transformed and generalized Poisson processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.2 The renewal process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.2.1 Basic properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.2.2 An informal discussion of renewal theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.3 The mixed Poisson process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2 The total claim amount 31
2.1 The order of magnitude of the total claim amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.1.1 The mean and the variance in the renewal model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.1.2 The asymptotic behavior in the renewal model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.1.3 Classical premium calculation principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
2.2 Claim size distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
2.2.1 Exploratory statistical tools: QQ-plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.2.2 A preliminary discussion of heavy- and light-tailed distributions . . . . . . . 39
2.2.3 Exploratory statistical tools: mean excess plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
2.2.4 Particular claim size distributions and their properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.2.5 Regularly varying claim sizes and their aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2.2.6 Subexponential distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
2.3 The distribution of the total claim amount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
2.3.1 Mixture distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
2.3.2 An exact numerical procedure for calculating the total claim amount distribution. . . . . . . 59
2.3.3 Approximation to the distribution of the total claim amount using the central limit theorem . . . .. 62
2.3.4 Approximation to the distribution of the total claim amount by Monte-Carlo techniques . . . . . . . 65
2.4 Reinsurance treaties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
3 Risk theory 72
3.1 Risk process, ruin probability and net pro t condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
3.2 Bounds for the ruin probability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
3.2.1 Lundberg's inequality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
3.2.2 Exact asymptotics for the ruin probability: the small claim case . . . . . . . 79
3.2.3 The representation of the ruin probability as a compound geometric probability 83
3.2.4 Exact asymptotics for the ruin probability: the large claim case . . . . . . . . 85
I Credibility theory 90
4 Bayes estimation 90
4.1 The heterogeneity model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
4.2 Bayes estimation in the heterogeneity model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
5 Linear Bayes estimation 95
5.1 Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
5.2 The Buhlmann model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
5.3 Linear Bayes estimation in the Buhlmann model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.4 The Buhlmann-Straub model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103