Pricing insurance contracts with an existing portfolio as background risk

IF 1.9 2区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Insurance Mathematics & Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-07 DOI:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2025.03.001

Corrado De Vecchi , Matthias Scherer

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Abstract

We develop and investigate a premium principle that explicitly takes into account the impact of a new risk on some insurer's existing portfolio. Specifically, we propose the notion of an indifference premium for a new risk conditioned on an existing portfolio acting as background risk. The resulting premium rule, which in our case depends on the joint distribution of the new risk and the existing portfolio, is analyzed in detail with respect to its mathematical properties. In order to underline the differences between our approach and the literature on law-invariant premium rules, special attention is given to the indifference premium behaviour with respect to some well-known dependence concepts. Axiomatic and continuity properties of the proposed indifference premium rule are also investigated. To demonstrate the practical relevance of our approach, we consider a portfolio of exchangeable risks and investigate the role of the portfolio's dimension on the price of a risk to be added. This illustrates the (limits of) diversification benefits under the flexible exchangeability assumption on the joint distribution of a sequence of risks.

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Insurance Mathematics & Economics 管理科学-数学跨学科应用

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3.40

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17.3 weeks

期刊介绍： Insurance: Mathematics and Economics publishes leading research spanning all fields of actuarial science research. It appears six times per year and is the largest journal in actuarial science research around the world. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics is an international academic journal that aims to strengthen the communication between individuals and groups who develop and apply research results in actuarial science. The journal feels a particular obligation to facilitate closer cooperation between those who conduct research in insurance mathematics and quantitative insurance economics, and practicing actuaries who are interested in the implementation of the results. To this purpose, Insurance: Mathematics and Economics publishes high-quality articles of broad international interest, concerned with either the theory of insurance mathematics and quantitative insurance economics or the inventive application of it, including empirical or experimental results. Articles that combine several of these aspects are particularly considered.