Title
Asymptotic Distributions of the Overshoot and Undershoots for the Lévy Insurance Risk Process in the Cramér and Convolution Equivalent Cases
Document Type
Article
Date
6-16-2011
Disciplines
Mathematics
Description/Abstract
Recent models of the insurance risk process use a Levy process to generalise the traditional Cramer-Lundberg compound Poisson model. This paper is concerned with the behaviour of the distributions of the overshoot and undershoots of a high level, for a Levy process which drifts to -infinity and satisfies a Cramer or a convolution equivalent condition. We derive these asymptotics under minimal conditions in the Cramer case, and compare them with known results for the convolution equivalent case, drawing attention to the striking and unexpected fact that they become identical when certain parameters tend to equality. Thus, at least regarding these quantities, the "medium-heavy" tailed convolution equivalent model segues into the "light-tailed" Cramer model in a natural way. This suggests a usefully expanded exibility for modelling the insurance risk process. We illustrate this relationship by comparing the asymptotic distributions obtained for the overshoot and undershoots, assuming the Levy process belongs to the "GTSC" class.
Recommended Citation
Griffin, Philip S.; Maller, Ross A.; and van Schaik, Kees, "Asymptotic Distributions of the Overshoot and Undershoots for the Lévy Insurance Risk Process in the Cramér and Convolution Equivalent Cases" (2011). Mathematics - All Scholarship. 99.
https://surface.syr.edu/mat/99
Source
Harvested from arXiv.org
Additional Information
This manuscript is from arXiv.org, for more information see http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3292