On optimality of the barrier strategy for a general Lévy risk process |
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Authors: | Kam Chuen Yuen Chuancun Yin |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong;2. School of Mathematical Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Shandong 273165, PR China |
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Abstract: | We consider the optimal dividend problem for the insurance risk process in a general Lévy process setting. The objective is to find a strategy which maximizes the expected total discounted dividends until the time of ruin. We give sufficient conditions under which the optimal strategy is of barrier type. In particular, we show that if the Lévy density is a completely monotone function, then the optimal dividend strategy is a barrier strategy. This approach was inspired by the work of Avram et al. F. Avram, Z. Palmowski, M.R. Pistorius, On the optimal dividend problem for a spectrally negative Lévy process, The Annals of Applied Probability 17 (2007) 156–180], Loeffen R. Loeffen, On optimality of the barrier strategy in De Finetti’s dividend problem for spectrally negative Lévy processes, The Annals of Applied Probability 18 (2008) 1669–1680] and Kyprianou et al. A.E. Kyprianou, V. Rivero, R. Song, Convexity and smoothness of scale functions with applications to De Finetti’s control problem, Journal of Theoretical Probability 23 (2010) 547–564] in which the same problem was considered under the spectrally negative Lévy processes setting. |
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