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A Risk Model with an Observer in a Markov Environment

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  • Hansjörg Albrecher

    (Department of Actuarial Science, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland
    Swiss Finance Institute, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland)

  • Jevgenijs Ivanovs

    (Department of Actuarial Science, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland)

Abstract

We consider a spectrally-negative Markov additive process as a model of a risk process in a random environment. Following recent interest in alternative ruin concepts, we assume that ruin occurs when an independent Poissonian observer sees the process as negative, where the observation rate may depend on the state of the environment. Using an approximation argument and spectral theory, we establish an explicit formula for the resulting survival probabilities in this general setting. We also discuss an efficient evaluation of the involved quantities and provide a numerical illustration.

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  • Hansjörg Albrecher & Jevgenijs Ivanovs, 2013. "A Risk Model with an Observer in a Markov Environment," Risks, MDPI, vol. 1(3), pages 1-14, November.
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