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- Lin He
- Zongxia Liang
- Yang Liu
- Ming Ma
Abstract
In a participating endowment contract, the special loss compensation and profit sharing mechanism leads to heterogeneous benchmarks to distinguish the gain and loss for the policyholder's and the insurance company's S-shaped utilities. Because of the intense competition among the insurance companies and the requirement of the regulators, the benefits of the policyholders should be considered. As such, choosing the weighted utility of the two counterparts as the optimization objective is a rational setting. This setting induces a non-HARA (hyperbolic absolute risk aversion) and non-concave objective utility whose exact concavity and convexity are unknown. The difficulties not only come from this highly non-concave optimization problem, but also exist in the implicit integration of the optimum when solving the expected utilities of the two counterparts. We originally design an identification method to establish two categories of concave envelopes to solve the optimization problem, and propose an innovative numerical integration by substitution technique to deal with the implicit integration problem. The numerical simulation results recognize the existence of Pareto improvement of the two counterparts, which shows that the utilities of the policyholder and the insurance company can be simultaneously improved by switching into the weighted objective and appropriately amending the contract.
Suggested Citation
Lin He & Zongxia Liang & Yang Liu & Ming Ma, 2020.
"Weighted utility optimization of the participating endowment contract,"
Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 2020(7), pages 577-613, August.
Handle:
RePEc:taf:sactxx:v:2020:y:2020:i:7:p:577-613
DOI: 10.1080/03461238.2019.1698452
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