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Optimal robust reinsurance with multiple insurers

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  • Emma Kroell
  • Sebastian Jaimungal
  • Silvana M. Pesenti

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We study a reinsurer who faces multiple sources of model uncertainty. The reinsurer offers contracts to n insurers whose claims follow compound Poisson processes representing both idiosyncratic and systemic sources of loss. As the reinsurer is uncertain about the insurers' claim severity distributions and frequencies, they design reinsurance contracts that maximise their expected wealth subject to an entropy penalty. Insurers meanwhile seek to maximise their expected utility without ambiguity. We solve this continuous-time Stackelberg game for general reinsurance contracts and find that the reinsurer prices under a distortion of the barycentre of the insurers' models. We apply our results to proportional reinsurance and excess-of-loss reinsurance contracts, and illustrate the solutions numerically. Furthermore, we solve the related problem where the reinsurer maximises, still under ambiguity, their expected utility and compare the solutions.

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  • Emma Kroell & Sebastian Jaimungal & Silvana M. Pesenti, 2025. "Optimal robust reinsurance with multiple insurers," Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 2025(5), pages 479-509, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:sactxx:v:2025:y:2025:i:5:p:479-509
    DOI: 10.1080/03461238.2024.2431539
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