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Optimal Timing of Business Conversion for Solvency Improvement
In this paper, we study the optimal timing to convert the risk of business for an insurance company in order to improve its solvency. The cash flow of company evolves according to a jump-diffusion process. Business conversion option offers the company an opportunity to transfer the jump risk business out. In exchange for this option, the company needs to pay both fixed and proportional transaction costs. The proportional cost can also be seen as the profit loading of the jump risk business. We formulated this problem as an optimal stopping problem. By solving this stopping problem, we find that the optimal timing of business conversion mainly depends on the profit loading of the jump risk business. A larger profit loading would make the conversion option valueless. The fixed cost, however, only delays the optimal timing of business conversion. In the end, numerical results are provided to illustrate the impacts of transaction costs and environmental parameters to the optimal strategies.
期刊介绍:
Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica (English Series) is a quarterly journal established by the Chinese Mathematical Society. The journal publishes high quality research papers from all branches of applied mathematics, and particularly welcomes those from partial differential equations, computational mathematics, applied probability, mathematical finance, statistics, dynamical systems, optimization and management science.