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Hawkes processes in insurance: Risk model, application to empirical data and optimal investment

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  • Swishchuk, Anatoliy
  • Zagst, Rudi
  • Zeller, Gabriela

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In this paper we study a risk model with claim arrivals based on general compound Hawkes processes and show that it is suitable to model empirical insurance data. We review a law of large numbers and functional central limit theorem for this model and derive a pure diffusion approximation which allows analytical calculation of finite-time and infinite-time ruin probabilities. We use the approximation to study the influence of replacing the classical Poisson arrival process by a general compound Hawkes process on optimal investment strategies for an insurer in an incomplete market by applying results from asset–liability management.

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  • Swishchuk, Anatoliy & Zagst, Rudi & Zeller, Gabriela, 2021. "Hawkes processes in insurance: Risk model, application to empirical data and optimal investment," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 101(PA), pages 107-124.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:insuma:v:101:y:2021:i:pa:p:107-124
    DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2020.12.005
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    Hawkes process; General compound Hawkes process; Risk model; FCLT; Diffusion approximation; Optimal investment for insurers; Incomplete market;
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