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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | A stochastic differential game for optimal investment of an insurer with regime switching |
Author: | Elliott, R. Siu, T. |
Citation: | Quantitative Finance, 2011; 11(3):365-380 |
Publisher: | IOP Publishing Ltd. |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
ISSN: | 1469-7688 1469-7696 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Robert J. Elliott and Tak Kuen Siu |
Abstract: | We introduce a model to discuss an optimal investment problem of an insurance company using a game theoretic approach. The model is general enough to include economic risk, financial risk, insurance risk, and model risk. The insurance company invests its surplus in a bond and a stock index. The interest rate of the bond is stochastic and depends on the state of an economy described by a continuous-time, finite-state, Markov chain. The stock index dynamics are governed by a Markov, regime-switching, geometric Brownian motion modulated by the chain. The company receives premiums and pays aggregate claims. Here the aggregate insurance claims process is modeled by either a Markov, regime-switching, random measure or a Markov, regime-switching, diffusion process modulated by the chain. We adopt a robust approach to model risk, or uncertainty, and generate a family of probability measures using a general approach for a measure change to incorporate model risk. In particular, we adopt a Girsanov transform for the regime-switching Markov chain to incorporate model risk in modeling economic risk by the Markov chain. The goal of the insurance company is to select an optimal investment strategy so as to maximize either the expected exponential utility of terminal wealth or the survival probability of the company in the ‘worst-case’ scenario. We formulate the optimal investment problems as two-player, zero-sum, stochastic differential games between the insurance company and the market. Verification theorems for the HJB solutions to the optimal investment problems are provided and explicit solutions for optimal strategies are obtained in some particular cases. |
Keywords: | Optimal investment Insurance company Markov regime-switching models Model uncertainty Insurance claim process Stochastic differential games Exponential utility Survival probability Dynamic programming HJB equations |
Rights: | © 2011 Taylor & Francis |
DOI: | 10.1080/14697681003591704 |
Grant ID: | ARC |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14697681003591704 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Mathematical Sciences publications |
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