On a generalization of the Gerber-Shiu function to path-dependent penalties |
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Authors: | Enrico Biffis |
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Institution: | a Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom b Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Montreal, CP. 6128 succ. centre-ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7 Canada |
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Abstract: | The Expected Discounted Penalty Function (EDPF) was introduced in a series of now classical papers (
Gerber and Shiu, 1997],
Gerber and Shiu, 1998a] and Gerber and Shiu, 1998b]). Motivated by applications in option pricing and risk management, and inspired by recent developments in fluctuation theory for Lévy processes, we study an extended definition of the expected discounted penalty function that takes into account a new ruin-related random variable. In addition to the surplus before ruin and deficit at ruin, we extend the EDPF to include the surplus at the last minimum before ruin. We provide an expression for the generalized EDPF in terms of convolutions in a setting involving a subordinator and a spectrally negative Lévy process. Some expressions for the classical EDPF are recovered as special cases of the generalized EDPF. |
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