Optimal Insurance Policy Indemnity Schedules With Policyholders’ Limited Liability and Background Risk

2018 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 973-988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Hofmann ◽  
Ole V. Häfen ◽  
Martin Nell
1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gur Huberman ◽  
David Mayers ◽  
Clifford W. Smith

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 1025-1047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yichun Chi ◽  
Wei Wei

AbstractIn this paper, we study an optimal insurance problem in the presence of background risk from the perspective of an insured with higher-order risk attitudes. We introduce several useful dependence notions to model positive dependence structures between the insurable risk and background risk. Under these dependence structures, we compare insurance contracts of different forms in higher-order risk attitudes and establish the optimality of stop-loss insurance form. We also explicitly derive the optimal retention level. Finally, we carry out a comparative analysis and investigate how the change in the insured's initial wealth or background risk affects the optimal retention level.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Tim J. Boonen ◽  
Wenjun Jiang

Abstract This paper studies the optimal insurance design from the perspective of an insured when there is possibility for the insurer to default on its promised indemnity. Default of the insurer leads to limited liability, and the promised indemnity is only partially recovered in case of a default. To alleviate the potential ex post moral hazard, an incentive compatibility condition is added to restrict the permissible indemnity function. Assuming that the premium is determined as a function of the expected coverage and under the mean–variance preference of the insured, we derive the explicit structure of the optimal indemnity function through the marginal indemnity function formulation of the problem. It is shown that the optimal indemnity function depends on the first and second order expectations of the random recovery rate conditioned on the realized insurable loss. The methodology and results in this article complement the literature regarding the optimal insurance subject to the default risk and provide new insights on problems of similar types.


2018 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 15-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiyi Lu ◽  
Shengwang Meng ◽  
Leping Liu ◽  
Ziqi Han

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulian Fan

This paper proves the existence and uniqueness of the solution of the optimal insurance problem with background risk and presents the explicit form of the optimal solution.


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