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Dependent Risks and Ruin Probabilities in Insurance

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Classical risk process models in insurance rely on independency. However, especially when modeling natural events, this assumption is very restrictive. This paper proposes a new approach to introducing dependency structures between events into the model and investigates its effects on a crucial parameter for insurance companies, the probability of ruin. Explicit formulas, numerical simulations and sensitivity results for dependence are established for different dependency models of first-order markovian type indicating that for various scenarios dependency considerably increases the probability of ruin.

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  • H. Albrecher, 1998. "Dependent Risks and Ruin Probabilities in Insurance," Working Papers ir98072, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
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