International Scholarly Research Notices
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 504987, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/504987

Research Article

The Asymptotics of Recovery Probability in the Dual Renewal Risk Model with Constant Interest and Debit Force

Hao Wang and Lin Xu

Department of Statistics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241002, China

Received 4 January 2015; Accepted 10 March 2015

Academic Editor: Alberto De Sole

Copyright © 2015 Hao Wang and Lin Xu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

The asymptotic behavior of the recovery probability for the dual renewal risk model with constant interest and debit force is studied. By means the idea of Markov Skeleton method, we studied the times that the random premium incomes happened and transformed the continuous time model into a discrete time model. By investigating the fluctuations of this discrete time model, we obtained the asymptotic behavior when the random premium income belongs to a kind of heavy-tailed distributions.

1. Introduction

The classical risk model is specified as

where is the initial surplus and is the constant rate at which the premiums are received. The aggregate claims process is assumed to be a compound Poisson process, which denotes the total number of claims up to time . Denote the time of arrival of the claim by and the size of the claim by . More details about the surplus process can be found in Asmussen and Albrecher [1] and Rolski et al. [2]. As pointed out by Albrecher et al. [3], its dual process may also be relevant for companies whose inherent business involves a constant flow of expenses while revenues arrive occasionally due to some contingent events (e.g., discoveries and sales). For instance, pharmaceutical or petroleum companies are prime examples of companies for which it is reasonable to model their surplus process as

Here, is again the initial surplus, but the constant is now the rate of expenses, assumed to be deterministic and fixed. The aggregate claims process is assumed to be a compound renewal process. The negative claim sequence is assumed to be a sequence of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) nonnegative random variables (r.v.s.) with common distribution function ; we said is the tailed distribution. The interoccurrence times form another sequence of i.i.d. positive random variables. and are mutually independent. The occurrence times of the successive claims, , , constitute a renewal counting process

The past decade has witnessed an increasing attention on the research of dual risk model. For example, see Albrecher et al. [3] for optimal dividend problem, see Cheung and Drekic [4] for dividend approximation and dual risk model with perturbation, and see Yao et al. [5] for optimal dividend and equity issuance. Due to the positive safety loading, in dual risk model, when the operation time scale is infinite, the ruin probability of dual risk model is zero; thus, it is meaningless to discuss the ruin problem under dual risk model. However, there is a constant consumption in the dual risk model; thus, it has occasionally happened that the surplus of dual risk model is negative; in this case, the decision maker will care the probability that the surplus of the model became positive; we define this probability as the “recovery probability.” This conception is of both theoretical value and practical relevance. In this paper, we focus on the asymptotic behavior of the recovery probability under the dual renewal risk model, which covers the compound Poisson dual risk model. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we present an introduction to the dual renewal risk model with constant interest force and debit interest force and the problem to be investigated. Section 3 provides the main results and the corresponding proofs.

2. Model and Problem

In this section, we consider the case that the research institution would like to invest his surplus in bond market or borrow money from the bank; both the investment interest force or the debit interest force are the same, say . If there are no claims in the interval , then the surplus up to time is given by

letting , we can obtain

It is easy to see, if , then ; the surplus is increased and is not less than ; if , then ; the surplus is decreased and the insurance company may be ruin; if , we know it is possible that the surplus can recover to . Above all, we can define the absolute positive profit as

In this paper, we will discuss the recovery probability which is the probability of the surplus recover to when .

Now we let be the constant force of interest so that after time a capital becomes . Then, the total surplus which is denoted by is given by

Now, we can define the finite-time recovery probability as

At occurrence time , we observe the value which represents the surplus immediately after paying the th claim, . By virtue of (7), we have

Let

it follows that

Since recovery can happen only at the time of a claim occurrence, we rewrite the finite-time recovery probability in (8) as

Since is increased, let ; we obtain

here, . So we can study the recovery probability in (8) by the (13).

Similarly, for the infinite-time recovery probability defined in (13), we have

Here and henceforth, all limit relationships are for unless stated otherwise.

For two positive functions and , the relation amounts to the conjunction of the relations and , which are denoted as and , respectively. Next, we will define the convolution. For two distributions and on , we can say is their convolution; that is,

Furthermore, we write and for every .

For the general renewal risk model, an asymptotic expression for the finite time ruin probability is presented in [6]; that is,

In recent years, with the study of classical model and the development of the financial and insurance business, more and more people are interested in dual risk model; however, an analogue problem in insurance company is the dividend payment or high gain tax payment. Thus, the problem studied here sounds reasonable.

3. Main Results

In order to complete our results, we should have some definitions and lemmas.

Definition 1. A distribution on is said to belong to the class if

for every ; that is, .

Definition 2. A distribution on is said to belong to the class for some if

for every real number and the limit

exists and is finite; that is, . A larger class, , is defined by relation (18) alone.

A distribution function concentrated on is still said to be subexponential to the right if is subexponential, and we usually denote by the subexponential classes; see for example, [7]. Since it was introduced by [8–10], the subexponential class has been extensively investigated by many researchers and applied to various fields. This class is often used to model claim-size distributions; see, for example, [11–13].

Definition 3. A distribution on is said to belong to if

for arbitrary .

Lemma 4. Let , , and be three distributions on such that and that the exists and is finite for . Then,

Proof. See [14], Proposition 2.

Lemma 5. Let and be two distributions on . If , , and , then and

Proof. See [6], Corollary 1.

Lemma 6. Let be a distribution on . If , then it holds for each fixed that

Proof. See [10], page 665.

Lemma 7. Let be a sequence of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) nonnegative random variables with common distribution function , . is a sequence of nonnegative random variables, and are mutually independent, and if for some and all , satisfies

then

Proof. See [7], Proposition 5.1.

Lemma 8. Let be a renewal process. The interoccurrence time forms another sequence of i.i.d. positive random variable with common distribution function ; it is easy to see that which is the distribution of the th claim occurrence time is the convolution of . If is the renewal function, then we have

Proof. See [15], page 49.

3.1. Main Results and Proof

Theorem 9. In the dual renewal risk model with constant force of interest , the number of claims is a renewal process, is the renewal function, and the claim sizes and are mutually independent. If , then

for arbitrary .

Proof. Starting with (13) and conditioning on , we have

Since for every , by Lemma 7, we have

We know ; then,

since , then

So we have

We present an asymptotic expression for the finite-time recovery probability in Theorem 9. In the following, we will show the last main result of the paper.

Theorem 10. In the dual renewal risk model with constant force of interest , if for some , , then

where is a sequence of i.i.d. positive random variables with common distribution function .

Proof. The proof of is the same as the one for Theorem 3.2 of [16]; we do not copy the steps here. Next, we will prove (34). Let be a copy of independent of . Then, for every ,

Therefore,

here is a new conditional random variable, and the distribution still belongs to the intersection ; is a small enough constant.
So from (36) and according to the (13), we can obtain

Since

and the Lemma 6, we can see

We know , so , , that is, , we can obtain . So

we deduce that

By Lemma 4, we obtain that

so

Then,

Clearly, converges to in distribution as . Therefore, by the dominated convergence theorem, the expectation on the right-hand side above converges to as ; that is,

It is easy to construct the corresponding asymptotic upper bound by (37). Similarly as above (by Lemmas 4 and 5),

Clearly, converges to in distribution as . Therefore, similarly as above,

This completes the proof.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

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