Ruin Probabilities with Dependence on the Number of Claims within a Fixed Time Window

Abstract

We analyse the ruin probabilities for a renewal insurance risk process with inter-arrival times depending on the claims that arrive within a fixed (past) time window. This dependence could be explained through a regenerative structure. The main inspiration of the model comes from the bonus-malus (BM) feature of pricing car insurance. We discuss first the asymptotic results of ruin probabilities for different regimes of claim distributions. For numerical results, we recognise an embedded Markov additive process, and via an appropriate change of measure, ruin probabilities could be computed to a closed-form formulae. Additionally, we employ the importance sampling simulations to derive ruin probabilities, which further permit an in-depth analysis of a few concrete cases.

Keywords

• regenerative risk process
• ruin probability
• subexponential distribution
• Cramér asymptotics
• importance sampling
• crude Monte Carlo
• Markov additive process