Optimal reinsurance and investment strategies for insurer under interest rate and inflation risks

In this paper, we investigate an optimal reinsurance and investment problem for an insurer whose surplus process is approximated by a drifted Brownian motion. Proportional reinsurance is to hedge the risk of insurance. Interest rate risk and inflation risk are considered. We suppose that the instantaneous nominal interest rate follows an Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, and the inflation index is given by a generalized Fisher equation. To make the market complete, zero-coupon bonds and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) are included in the market. The financial market consists of cash, zero-coupon bond, TIPS and stock. We employ the stochastic dynamic programming to derive the closed-forms of the optimal reinsurance and investment strategies as well as the optimal utility function under the constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) utility maximization. Sensitivity analysis is given to show the economic behavior of the optimal strategies and optimal utility.     

基于状态空间模型构建我国固定资产投资的SWI景气指数

从众多经济指标中选取了固定资产投资的先行、一致指标组,利用所选择的指标基于状态空间模型,采用Kalman滤波估计方法得到了固定资产投资的一致和先行SWI景气指数.对一致指数的分析表明,自1998年以来我国固定资产投资经历了蓬勃扩张的投资长周期和两轮振荡波动的投资短周期,从2008年开始在国际金融危机蔓延和我国经济结构调整的大背景下固定资产投资进入相对平稳增长期.通过对先行合成指数的分析,认为"十二五"期间投资将保持稳定增长,出现大起大落的可能性很小.     

R&D投入、技术溢出及吸收能力与经济增长的空间计量分析

利用我国31个省份2001-2010年的面板数据,使用空间滞后模型(SLM)研究了我国区域RD投入、空间溢出效应及吸收能力对经济增长的影响.研究结果表明我国各省份经济增长之间存在着高度的空间相关性,一个省份的RD投入不仅能够促进本地区的经济增长,还会通过技术溢出促进相邻地区的经济增长,同时一个地区吸收能力越强,其对该地区经济增长的影响也越大.     

奈特不确定条件下企业有成本可逆投资策略研究

风险是企业投资决策关键影响因素之一,采纳奈特不确定性来刻画风险,并在此基础上构建了模糊规避偏好和投资有成本可逆条件下企业投资决策模型.模型结果表明企业最优投资策略为双阈值策略:企业增加投资以避免资本边际收益大于上限阈值,削减资本存量以避免资本边际收益低于下限阈值,当资本边际收益处于上下限阈值之间时,企业既不增加投资也不削减资本.比较静态分析显示奈特不确定性增加会降低最优投资策略上下限阈值范围.     

Developing real option game models

By mixing concepts from both game theoretic analysis and real options theory, an investment decision in a competitive market can be seen as a “game” between firms, as firms implicitly take into account other firms’ reactions to their own investment actions. We review two decades of real option game models, suggesting which critical problems have been “solved” by considering game theory, and which significant problems have not been yet adequately addressed. We provide some insights on the plausible empirical applications, or shortfalls in applications to date, and suggest some promising avenues for future research.     

中证开放式基金指数和GARCH-M模型

基于开放式基金指数周收益率时间序列的非正态性和厚尾特性,以中证开放式基金指数为例,运用GARCH-M模型进行研究,系统地分析我国不同类型的开放式基金的投资风险.实证分析表明:GARCH-M模型对中证开放式基金指数周收益率的拟合效果较好,并为预测我国开放式基金的投资风险提供了科学依据.     

Ornstein-Uhlenbeck模型下DC养老金计划的最优投资策略

本文研究了Ornstein-Uhlenbeck模型下确定缴费型养老金计划(简称DC计划)的最优投资策略,其中以最大化DC计划参与者终端财富(退休时其账户金额)的CRRA效用为目标.假定投资者可投资于无风险资产和一种风险资产,风险资产的瞬时收益率由Ornstein-Uhlenbeck过程驱动,该过程能反映市场所处的状态.利用随机控制理论,给出了相应的HJB方程与验证定理;并通过求解相应的HJB方程,得到了最优投资策略和最优值函数的解析式.最后分析了瞬时收益率对最优投资策略的影响,发现当市场向良性状态发展时,投资在风险资产上的财富比例呈上升趋势;当初始财富足够大且市场状态不变时,投资在风险资产上的财富比例几乎不受时间的影响.     

投资者情绪对基金羊群效应的影响研究

大量研究表明我国证券投资基金存在羊群效应,然而却很少对影响基金羊群效应的因素展开进一步的实证研究。基于此,本文利用主成分分析法测量投资者情绪,利用前十大流通股东中证券投资基金的家数来测量基金羊群效应的程度,研究投资者情绪指标是否对基金羊群效应产生影响。研究结果表明,投资者情绪是证券投资基金形成羊群效应的重要因素之一,基金经理在观察到上一期投资者悲观情绪(乐观情绪)时会做出负反馈策略。     

Optimal Cross Hedging of Insurance Derivatives

Abstract

We consider insurance derivatives depending on an external physical risk process, for example, a temperature in a low dimensional climate model. We assume that this process is correlated with a tradable financial asset. We derive optimal strategies for exponential utility from terminal wealth, determine the indifference prices of the derivatives, and interpret them in terms of diversification pressure. Moreover, we check the optimal investment strategies for standard admissibility criteria. Finally, we compare the static risk connected with an insurance derivative to the reduced risk due to a dynamic investment into the correlated asset. We show that dynamic hedging reduces the risk aversion in terms of entropic risk measures by a factor related to the correlation.