On the Compound Beta-Binomial Risk Model with Delayed Claims and Randomized Dividends
Aparna B. S, Neelesh S Upadhye

TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel discrete-time compound Beta-Binomial risk model incorporating delayed claims and randomized dividends, providing recursive formulas for ruin probabilities and related risk measures.
Contribution
It develops a new risk model with random claim and dividend probabilities following Beta distributions, and derives recursive formulas for key risk measures.
Findings
Recursive formulas for ruin probability and deficit at ruin.
Explicit expressions for probability of claim causing ruin.
Analysis of the Gerber-Shiu function for different dividend thresholds.
Abstract
In this paper, we propose the discrete time Compound Beta-Binomial Risk Model with by-claims, delayed by-claims and randomized dividends. We then analyze the Gerber-Shiu function for the cases where the dividend threshold and under the assumption that the constant discount rate . More specifically, we study the discrete time compound binomial risk model subject to the assumption that the probabilities with which the claims, by-claims occur and the dividends are issued are not fixed(constant), instead the probabilities are random and follow a Beta distribution with parameters and , . Recursive expressions for the Gerber-Shiu function corresponding to the proposed model are obtained. The recursive relations are further utilized to obtain significant ruin related quantities of interest. Recursive relations for probability of ruin, the…
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On the Compound Beta-Binomial Risk Model with Delayed Claims and Randomized Dividends
**Aparna B. S, Neelesh Upadhye **
Abstract
In this paper, we propose the discrete time Compound Beta-Binomial Risk Model with by-claims, delayed by-claims and randomized dividends. We then analyze the Gerber-Shiu function for the cases where the dividend threshold and under the assumption that the constant discount rate . More specifically, we study the discrete time compound binomial risk model subject to the assumption that the probabilities with which the claims, by-claims occur and the dividends are issued are not fixed(constant), instead the probabilities are random and follow a Beta distribution with parameters and , . Recursive expressions for the Gerber-Shiu function corresponding to the proposed model are obtained. The recursive relations are further utilized to obtain significant ruin related quantities of interest. Recursive relations for probability of ruin, the probability of the deficit at ruin, the generating function of the deficit at ruin and the probability of surplus at ruin and for the probability of the claim causing ruin are obtained.
Key words: Compound Beta Binomial Risk model, Utility function, Gerber-Shiu funciton, Delayed claims, Randomized Dividends.
1 Introduction
Risk theory is a mathematical construct that describes the vulnerability of a company towards ruin. Ruin related quantities of interest such as probability of ruin, the generating function of the deficit at ruin, the distribution of the surplus etc. may be evaluated using the concept of risk theory. The capital begins with an initial surplus amount , and continues to increase with periodic premiums. The capital decreases in jumps due to claims. Ruin/Dissolution follows whenever the company’s reserve amount or surplus becomes negative. Many of the abstract risk models use continuous time risk models but the realistic scenario is the opposite. The advantage of discrete time risk models is that recursive formulae may be arrived at without assuming the distritution of the claim sizes, thereby making it computationally easy. The findings from discrete time risk models serve as simpler forms of their continuous time analogues and may be used as approximations and bounds for the corresponding results in continuous time risk models, see, for example, [4]. Related literature on discrete time risk models can be found in [13], [9], [6],[17], [10], [11], [16]. For continuous time risk models involving delayed claims, the interested reader is reffered to [3], for an extension of the compound Poisson risk model. In addition, [19] involves results having the claim number process as an Erlang(2) process. The Compound Binomial Risk model, first introduced by Gerber [7] in the year 1988, has a utility function given by
[TABLE]
where denotes the insurer’s initial surplus and , represents the discrete time units, the periodic premium rate is assumed to be one unit. Also, are independent and identically distributed (iid) random variables (r.v’s), where each denotes the size of a main claim at time having pmf , represents the number of occurrences of main claims in time periods, which follows Binomial distribution with parameters and , and is assumed to be independent of . Equivalently, if denotes Bernoulli() r.v representing the occurrence of a main claim at time , then it is clear that which implies . In practice, claims can be split into two categories, main claims and by-claims. By-claims are induced by main claims. By-claims are settled in the same time period or at most one time period later. Let denote the size of the by-claim at time having pmf . Further, be a sequence of iid r.v’s representing by-claim sizes at various time periods having a common pmf for . Also, let be Bernoulli() r.v representing the occurrence of a by-claim at time . We assume that the r.v’s , , and are all independent of each other for all . Then the modified utility function is given by
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This model is further generalized to accommodate randomized dividends and by-claims. A dividend is due for payment whenever the surplus exceeds or is equal to a threshold , (a pre-determined constant). Let be Bernoulli() r.v representing the payment of unit dividend at time . Thus, the modified utility function is given by
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where denotes the total number of dividends paid in time periods and The utility function defined in (1), with is also known as the discrete time surplus process (DTSP). The time of ruin is defined as , the first time that the surplus is negative. The ultimate ruin probability is defined as . At the time of ruin , denotes the size of lack/deficit in surplus, is the surplus immediately before ruin and is the claim causing ruin. Let be a constant discount rate and be a non-negative bounded function, the penalty function which accounts for the gain/loss incurred due to ruin. emphasizes that penalty function is operational only at ruin. The expected penalty with at ruin is given by Gerber-Shiu discounted penalty function (see, Gerber et al. [8]), whenever has the form
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Since various ruin related quantities of interest may be obtained by choosing the penalty function appropriately, the Gerber-Shiu function has become a significant and standard risk measure in financial literature. Whenever the dividend threshold , we denote the corresponding Gerber-Shiu function . For related literature on the Gerber-Shiu function, the interested reader is referred to [1], [5], [15], [14], [12].
In the current paper, we consider a generalization of the Compound binomial risk model with by-claims and randomized dividends wherein the probabilities of occurrence of main claims, by-claims and issuance of dividends, follow a beta distribution. In addition to adopting the model as in [18] and [11], we also include the assumption that a randomized dividend of 1 with probability is paid until the insurance company goes into ruin. We derive explicit recursive expressions for the discounted Gerber-Shiu function. The remaining sections of the paper is organized as follows : In Section 2, we describe the motivation for the model chosen in this paper and define the Beta-binomial compound binomial risk model with by-claims and randomized dividends, analyze the model and derive explicit expressions for the discounted expected penalty function or the Gerber-Shiu function. In Section 3, the outcomes achieved in Section 2 are utilized to analyze some ruin related quantities of interest namely the probability of ruin, probability of the deficit at ruin, the generating function of the deficit at ruin and the probability of the surplus at ruin.
2 Compound Beta-Binomial Risk Model and Recursive Relations
To the best of our knowledge, various DTSPs studied in literature assume that the probabilities of occurrence of claims, by-claims and the probability of issuance of dividend are fixed (constant), which is not always a constructive assumption. In practice, the claim probabilities and the dividend issuance probability, can be random and may have some distribution on . In order to comprehend the behavior of the DTSP with random claim probabilities we propose the new model with the following assumptions along with the assumptions already made for .
- (A1)
Let be Bernoulli() r.v’s that represent the occurrence of a main claim at time , where has Beta distribution with parameters . Hence .
- (A2)
Let be Bernoulli() r.v’s that represent the occurrence of a by-claim at time , where has Beta distribution with parameters . Hence
- (A3)
Let be Bernoulli() r.v’s that represent the payment of unit dividend at time , where has Beta distribution with parameters . Hence
- (A4)
The expected positive security loading condition (see [2]) for the utility function in DTSP(1) being .
- (A5)
, , , and are independent of each other for all .
Henceforth, the DTSP (1) subject to the assumptions (A1) through (A5), in addition to the assumptions already made for the Compound Binomial risk model is called the Compound Beta-Binomial risk model with delayed claims and randomized dividends. In this paper, we analyze the expected discounted penalty function (2) with and without the positive dividend threshold/barrier for the risk model defined in DTSP. We denote the probability generating functions of and are given by and respectively. If , then . Suppose that a main claim occurring with probability induces a by-claim with probability and the settlement of the by-claim is done simultaneously or in the next time period with probability , then such a by-claim is called the deferred/delayed by-claim. Assuming that the delayed by-claim occurs in the first time period, the auxiliary utility function or the auxiliary discrete time surplus process (ADTSP) in case of delayed by-claims is given by
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Here, is a r.v representing the delayed by-claim and having pmf . Further, has the same distribution as i.e . is independent of all other r.v’s. The reader is reffered to [16], [18] and [11] for literature on risk models with delayed claims. We denote the Gerber-Shiu function corresponding to the ADTSP by . Given and , the conditional expected penalty function when the DTSP becomes negative (from up to ) is given by then, . We now derive explicit expressions for and in the first time period which constitutes one of the main results in this paper. In the first time period, the DTSP and the corresponding components of the Gerber-Shiu function for various scenarios of claims, by-claims and dividends are listed in Table (1). For example, when , , , , , , a component of is given by
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The first term in is for the case when the company does not go into ruin while the second term is for the case when the company goes into dissolution/ruin. Collating the results listed in Table (1) and using the law of total expectation, we may obtain an explicit expression for the expected discounted penalty function .
Now, in DTSP(1) whenever , we have,
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We now proceed to find a recursive relation for as described below
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Simplifying further we have,
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where . We now inspect the auxiliary utility function i.e ADTSP when in the first time period.
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The utility function in ADTSP and the corresponding components of the Gerber-Shiu function in the first time period, using the law of total expectation, are listed in Table (2)
Collating the various cases in Table and using arguments similar to those which led to and , we can obtain a recursive expression for as follows:
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Simplifying further, we obtain :
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Using the method of generating function and multiplying both sides of and by and summing over from [math] to , and using the definition of generating function of and , we obtain the following expressions From we get,
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Here, and
From we get,
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Multiplying by and adding it to gives an expression for ,which is then substituted back in expression to get,
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Substituting for from expression in expression and defining \Gamma_{1}(z)=z-\nu\;\mathbb{E}(K)\;[1-\mathbb{E}(W)]\bigg{\{}[1-\mathbb{E}(V)]+z\;\mathbb{E}(V)\bigg{\}}\widetilde{f}(z)\;\widetilde{g}(z) and
\Gamma_{2}(z)=z-\nu\;\mathbb{E}(K)\;[1-\mathbb{E}(W)]\bigg{\{}[1-\mathbb{E}(V)]+z\;\mathbb{E}(V)\bigg{\}}\Bigg{\{}[1-\mathbb{E}(K)]+\mathbb{E}(K)\;\widetilde{f}(z)\;\widetilde{g}(z)\Bigg{\}} , we obtain:
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Here , the initial value is unknown. It is observed that, since , and , , , and \Gamma_{2}(1)=1-v\bigg{\{}1-\mathbb{E}(V)+\mathbb{E}(V)\bigg{\}}\biggl{[}[1-\mathbb{E}(K)]+\mathbb{E}(K)\widetilde{f}(1)\widetilde{g}(1)\biggr{]}\geq 1-v>0. Thus, there exists at least one real root of in the interval . Let be the root of in . Further, since , , and . So we have,
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Thus, is a strictly increasing function on . This ensures that has a unique root in . Replacing in gives the initial value as
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Comparing the coefficients of on both sides of the recursive relation for the expected discounted penalty function for the case when can be obtained as
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for and as given by . This is the first main result claimed in this paper.
2.1 Recursive expression for the Gerber-Shiu function when discount factor
Let be the positive dividend threshold assuming non negative integer values. In this section, we derive a recursive relation for the Gerber-Shiu function corresponding to the DTSP and ADTSP whenever . For a positive integer we consider and satisfying the constraints given below
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Both and surplus processes do not pay dividends in the first time period for .
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For , the dividend may or may not be issued in the first time period.
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and,
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Proceeding in a manner similar to Section 2, we use the generating function technique as in and compare the coefficients of to get a recursive relation for , with as
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Since , the initial values for the above expression when are to be determined. Let so that the initial values may be found. Consider the penalty function, with and and where and are constants. The discounted joint probability mass function corresponding to and and is given by :
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With the introduction of the penalty function , it can be easily shown that , ,
and \mathbb{E}[{\Theta}_{K(X+WY)+\hat{Y}}(0)]=\mathbb{I}{\{v_{1}=0\}}\biggl{[}[1-\mathbb{E}(K)]g(v_{2})+\mathbb{E}(K)[1-\mathbb{E}(W)]\;(f*g)(v_{2})+\mathbb{E}(K)\;[\mathbb{E}(W)](f*g*g)(v_{2})\biggr{]} Also, when , we have,
Substituting the above results in addition to in and simplifying, we can find the initial values . may be obtained by replacing the penalty function in in expression by the penalty function .
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On similar lines, for , we obtain,
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Since dividend is not issued in the first time period, . Hence, setting in and will respectively yield
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and,
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The first set of equations to determine the unknowns and are obtained by setting in and . Using expression , the joint probability mass function corresponding to the surplus immediately before ruin and the deficit at ruin we can compute , as the marginal distribution which is given by
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3 Applications
Recursive expressions for a few ruin related quantities of interest will be derived in this section. Let and .
In Example , a recursive expression for the probability of ruin is obtained.
Example 3.1**.**
Let . Then = probability of ruin.
Here, , ,
and . Further, . A recursive expression for the probability of ruin is obtained by substituting the quantities mentioned in this example and replacing by in . The initial value may be obtained from .
In Example , a recursive formula for the probability of deficit at ruin is obtained.
Example 3.2**.**
*Let , . Then,
{\bf{m}}(u)={P}\biggl{[}|\mathbb{S}_{\tau_{-}}|=y|\mathbb{S}_{0}=u\biggr{]} = Probability of the deficit at ruin = (say)*
Here, for any , , , and . Further, and . A recursive expression for the probability of deficit at ruin is obtained by substituting the above quantities and replacing by in . The initial value may be obtained from .
In Example , a recursive expression for the generating function of the deficit at ruin is obtained.
Example 3.3**.**
Let and then, (say) , the generating function of the deficit at ruin.
Here, , , and . Further, and .
A recursive expression for the generating function of the deficit at ruin is obtained by substituting the above quantities and replacing by in .The initial value may be obtained from .
In Example , a recursive expression for the probability of the surplus at ruin is obtained.
Example 3.4**.**
Let , then = Probability of the surplus at ruin = (say)
Here , and and . Further, and .
A recursive expression for the probability of the surplus at ruin is obtained by substituting the above quantities and replacing by in . The initial value may be obtained from .
Example 3.5**.**
Let , then = (Probability of the claim causing ruin) =
Here, = , , , , and .
A recursive expression for the probability of the claim causing ruin is obtained by substituting the above quantities and replacing by in . The initial value may be obtained from .
4 Conclusion
In this paper, a recursive expression for the conditional expected penalty function for the risk model under consideration has been obtained under the assumption that the probabilities of occurrence of claim , by-claim and probability the issuance of dividends follow a Beta distribution. However, in literature, to the best of our knowledge, the probabilities are assumed to be fixed (constant). The results obtained in this paper are generalizations of the standard results obtained for the Compound Binomial risk model with by-claims and randomized dividends. If the probabilities are fixed, then the results in [11] and [18] can be reproduced. Recursive expressions for ruin related quantities i.e. the probability of ruin, probability of the deficit at ruin, generating function for the deficit at ruin and probability of the surplus at ruin has been arrived at.
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