Ruin probability for renewal risk models with neutral net profit condition

Abstract

In ruin theory, the net profit condition intuitively means that the sizes of the incurred random claims are on average less than the premiums gained between the successive interoccurrence times. The breach of the net profit condition causes guaranteed ruin in few but simple cases when both the claims’ interoccurrence time and random claims are degenerate. In this work, we give a simplified argumentation for the unavoidable ruin when the incurred claims are on average equal to the premiums gained between the successive interoccurrence times. We study the discrete-time risk model with N ∈ N periodically occurring independent distributions, the classical risk model, also known as the Cramér–Lundberg risk process, and the more general Sparre Andersen model.