An Insurance Risk Model with Stochastic Volatility
31 Pages Posted: 15 Dec 2008 Last revised: 16 Feb 2010
Date Written: December 15, 2008
Abstract
In this paper, we extend the Cramer-Lundberg insurance risk model perturbed by diffusion to incorporate stochastic volatility and study the resulting Gerber-Shiu expected discounted penalty (EDP) function. Under the assumption that volatility is driven by an underlying Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process, we derive the integro-differential equation which the EDP function satisfies. Not surprisingly, no closed-form solution exists; however, assuming the driving OU process is fast mean-reverting, we apply singular perturbation theory to obtain an asymptotic expansion of the solution. Two integro-differential equations for the first two terms in this expansion are obtained and explicitly solved. When the claim size distribution is of phase-type, the asymptotic results simplify even further and we succeed in estimating the error of the approximation. Hyper-exponential and mixed-Erlang distributed claims are considered in some detail.
Keywords: Gerber-Shiu expected discounted penalty function, Integro-differential equation, Singular perturbation theory, Stochastic volatility, Perturbed compound Poisson risk process, Phase-type distribution, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
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