OPTIMAL DIVIDEND AND FINANCING PROBLEMS FOR A DIFFUSION MODEL WITH EXCESS-OF-LOSS REINSURANCE STRATEGY AND TERMINAL VALUE
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1 Vol. 38 ( 218 ) No. 6 J. of Math. (PRC) OPTIMAL DIVIDEND AND FINANCING PROBLEMS FOR A DIFFUSION MODEL WITH EXCESS-OF-LOSS REINSURANCE STRATEGY AND TERMINAL VALUE LI Tong, MA Shi-xia, Han Mi (School of Sciences, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 341, China) Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the optimal dividend and financing policies problems with excess-of-loss reinsurance and a terminal value. In our model, by using approximate diffusion and dynamic programming and constructing of suboptimal problems, we obtain the HJB equation satisfied the general optimal problem and verification theorem. Assuming the proportional and fixed transaction costs and the terminal value at bankruptcy, we get the optimal value function, the optimal dividend policy, the optimal reinsurance strategy and the optimal finance strategy. Keywords: diffusion process; dividend and financing; excess-of-loss reinsurance; expected value principle; terminal value 21 MR Subject Classification: 6G5; 62P5 Document code: A Article ID: (218) Introduction In the actuarial and mathematical insurance literature, the optimal dividend problem for an insurance company consists in finding a dividend strategy that maximizes the expected discounted dividends until the ruin. The diffusion model about this problem of optimal risk control and dividend distribution was widely studied since fifteen years ago. As we know, the diffusion models for companies can control risk exposure and dividend payment. For example, the papers such as Taksar and Zhou [1], Asmussen et al. [2] and Cadenillas et al. [3] considered that the company control the risk exposure by proportional reinsurance. Meanwhile, some increasing attention was paid to the dividend problem in term of excess-ofloss reinsurance. The literature includes Zhang and Zhou [4], Xu and Zhou [5] and reference therein. When companies are on the verge of ruin, we can choose to bail out through capital injections or get out of business. When the surplus is null, we inject to prevent bankruptcy, Received date: Accepted date: Foundation item: Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China ( ; ); the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (A ; A ). Biography: Li Tong (1991 ), female, born at Handan, Hebei, postgraduate, major in probability and mathematical statistics. Corresponding author: Ma Shixia.
2 132 Journal of Mathematics Vol. 38 see He and Liang [6] and Peng and Chen [7]. Leaving the business may lead to bankruptcy and the corresponding terminal value (say P). For P, we view the terminal value as salvage value; for P <, it is viewed as the penalty value. The terminal value considered by the optimal control problem goes back to Karatzas et al. [8]. Taskar [9] firstly considers the risk control and dividend distribution problem with terminal value. Since then, more and more attention are paid on the control problem with terminal value. For instance, the optimal proportion reinsurance policy with terminal value can be found on Taskar [9]. Albrecher [1] and Liang and Young [11] found the optimal dividend strategy in diffusion risk model under a penalty (or salvage) for ruin. Some papers consider the optimal dividend and financing strategies with terminal value and reinsurance polices under different premium principle. For example, Yao and Yang [12] and Cheng and Zhao [13] investigated the optimal problem under the variance premium principle. Cheng and Wang [14] solved this problem under the exponential premium principle. Considering the excess-of-loss reinsurance, Xu and Zhou [5] and Liu and Hu [15] started to research on this optimal problem. As far as we know, very little work has considered the combined optimal dividend, excess-of-loss reinsurance and financing polices with terminal value. Motivated by the above references, in this paper we study the optimal dividend, financing and excess-of-loss reinsurance with terminal value. The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we introduce the model formulation of the problem. In Section 3, we give the HJB equations about the optimisation problem and some properties of the value function. In Section 4, we consider the optimal control problem without capital injection. In Section 5, we solve the optimal problem that the company does not allow to ruin through financing. 2 Model Formulation and the Optimal Control Problem Let (Ω, F, {F t } t, P) be a probability space, on which all stochastic quantities in this paper are well defined. Here {F t } t is a filtration, which satisfies the usual conditions. To specify the diffusion model, firstly, we introduce the classical Cramer-Lundberg risk model. The surplus process of an insurance company satisfies N t Z t = x + ct Y i, (2.1) where Z = x is the initial reserve and c is the premium rate. {N t } t is a Poisson process with constant intensity λ. Y i is the size of the ith claim, where Y i are independent and identically distribution positive random variables with common distribution function F. Assume that mean µ 1 = E[Y i ] > and the second moment µ 2 = E[Y 2 i ] > are finite. In this paper, excess-of-loss reinsurance is available, so let a be the excess-of-loss retention level. Assume the insurer purchases reinsurance contract R to cede the risk of claim, that is to say, the insurer covers R(Y i ) for claim Y i, and R(Y i ) = Y i a. Then define the corresponding µ (1) R i=1 and µ(2) R. The premium rate for the reinsurance covers cr, under the
3 No. 6 Optimal dividend and financing problems for a diffusion model with excess-of-loss expected value principle, it has c R = (1 + )E[ Nt (Y i R(Y i ))] = (1 + )λ(µ (1) µ (1) ), where is the safety loading, and i=1 R µ (1) R (a) = E[R(Y i)] = a F (x)dx, µ (2) R (a) = E[R2 (Y i )] = a 2x F (x)dx, where F (x) = P (Y i > x) = 1 F (x). Define Thus the function µ (1) R and µ(2) R [N, ), which equal to µ (1) R reinsurance R can be written as Z R t N := inf{x : F (x) = }. (2.2) are increasing on [, N], meanwhile they are constants on (N) and µ(2) R (N). So the surplus process in the presence of N t = x + (c c R )t R(Y i ). (2.3) By the same argument as in the Asmussen et al. [2], we can approximate the process (2.3) by a pure diffusion process {X R t } with the same coefficient and volatility. Specifically, {X R t } satisfies i=1 Xt R = x + [λµ (1) R (a) + c (1 + )λµ(1) ]t + λµ (2) R (a)b t, X R = x, (2.4) where {B t } is a standard Brownian motion, adapted to the filtration {F t }. Assume the retention level can be dynamically adjusted to control the risk expose. At each time, the insurer chooses the retention level a = a(t). Next, we consider dividend payment and capital injection in the above processes. Denote L t as the cumulative amount of dividends paid up to time t. The capital injection process G t = I {τn }η n is described by a sequence of random variables {η n, n = 1, 2, } and a sequence of increasing stopping times {τ n, n = 1, 2, }, which are corresponded to the amounts of capital injections and the times, respectively. Then given an admissible control strategy = (a, L, G ), the dynamics of the control surplus process {X t } with initial reserve x > can be written by X t = X R t L t + G t with X = x L + G. (2.5) In this paper, using the excess-of-loss reinsurance strategy means that among the admissible reinsurance policies the retention level {a t } can be adjusted dynamically to reach the whole optimization. In addition, we assume that the insure company premium under expected premium principle is c = (1+)λµ (1), which is the case of cheap reinsurance. Thus, the process {X R t } can be written as the following stochastic process X R t = x + t λµ (1) R (a t)dt + t λµ (2) R (a t)db t, X R = x. (2.6)
4 134 Journal of Mathematics Vol. 38 Then we give the following definition of an admissible strategy which the insurer can select. Definition 2.1 A strategy is said to be admissible if (i) a t a, t. (ii) {L t } is an increasing and F t -adapted càdlàg process with L = and satisfies L t = L t L t Xt for t. (iii) {τn } is a sequence of stopping times with respect to {F t } t and τ1 < τ2 < < τn < a.s.. (iv) ηn, n = 1, 2, is measurable with respect to F τ n. (v) P ( lim τ n < t) =, t >. n Condition (ii) implies the reserve available is more than the total amount of dividends at the moment. Condition (v) demands that the capital injections may not occur infinitely in a finite interval. Denote by Π the set of these admissible strategies. For each admissible policies Π, the ruin time of the control surplus process is defined as T = inf{t : Xt < }, which is first time that surplus becomes negative. Then we can study the following problem. We measure the company s value associated with strategy Π using the following performance function V (x; ), which is the expected sum of discounted terminal value and the discounted dividends less the expected discounted costs of refinancing until the time of ruin V (x; ) = E x (β 1 e δs dl s + P e δt e δτ n (β2 ηn + K)I {τ n T }). (2.7) E x denotes the expectation conditional on X = x, and δ > is the discount rate. In the financing process, we assume that the shareholders need to pay β 2 η + K to meet the capital injection of η, where β 2 > 1 measures the proportion costs, K > is the fixed costs. In the dividend distribution process, proportion costs transaction are taken into account through the value β 1, β 1 (, 1) means that the shares can get β 1 l if the company pays l as dividends. The objection is to find the optimal value function V (x) = sup V (x; ) (2.8) Π and the associated optimal strategy such that V (x) = V (x; ). 3 The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) Equation and Verification Theorem The solution of the optimal value function and the optimal strategy are based on the HJB (Hamilton-Jacobl-Bellman) equation. In order to deriving this equation, we first define some operators. For the function v(x) : [, ) R, we define the financing operator M by Mv(x) = sup{v(x + y) β 2 y K}, y
5 No. 6 Optimal dividend and financing problems for a diffusion model with excess-of-loss which means the value of the police that consists of choosing the best immediate capital injection. The differential operator A a is denoted by A (a) v(x) = 1 2 λµ(2) R (a)v (x) + λµ (1) R (a)v (x) δv(x). Assuming that the value function V (x) is the twice continuously differentiable, and using the standard stochastic control theory (see, e.g., Fleming and Soner [16]), we can characterize the HJB equation of the control problem as max{ max a A {Aa v(x)}, β 1 v (x), Mv(x) v(x)} = ; (3.1) max{mv() v(), P v()} =. (3.2) Then we will give some property of the value function. Lemma 3.1 The value function defined by (2.8) is increasing on [, ) with β 1 (x y) V (x) V (y) β 2 (x y) + K (3.3) and satisfies the following boundary condition β 1 x + P V (x) β 1 x + β 1 λµ (1) R /δ + P I {P >}. (3.4) Proof Given ε, take a admissible strategy 1 Π such that V (x; 1 ) V (x) ε. For each x y, we define a new strategy 1 Π as follows: issue equities with the amount of x y and then follow the strategy 1. The strategy 1 is admissible and we have V (y) V (y; 1 ) = V (x; 1 ) β 2 (x y) K V (x) ε β 2 (x y) K, ε is arbitrary. So we obtain the second inequality. The first inequality can be similarly proved. Consider a new strategy 2. When we pay all of the surplus as dividends and claim the terminal value, we can get the corresponding performance function V (x; 2 ) = β 1 x + P. Because of the optimality of the value function, we obtain V (x) V (x; 2 ) = β 1 x + P. The surplus process {X R t } with only reinsurance is described by (2.6), we have By Itô s formula, E x ( e δs dxs R ) = E x ( e δt X T = x δ e δs (λµ (1) R )ds) λµ(1) R /δ. e δs Xs ds + e δs dxs. We know that XT = and X t, for t T. Taking the expectation on both sides, we have E x ( e δs dxs ) = x δe x ( e δs Xs ds) x,
6 136 Journal of Mathematics Vol. 38 so V (x; ) = E x (β 1 e δs dl s + P e δt β 1 E x ( e δs dl s = β 1 [E x ( e δτ n (β2 ηn + K)I {τ n T }) e δτ n η n I {τ n T }) + P I {P >} e δs dx R s ) E x ( e δs dx s )] + P I {P >} β 1 x + β 1 λµ (1) R /δ + P I {P >}. (3.5) Hence, we can get the boundary condition. Theorem 3.1 (Verification theorem) Let v(x) be a twice continuously differentiable, increasing and concave solution of HJB equations (3.1) and (3.2), and v (x) is bounded, then for each Π, we have v(x) V (x; ). So v(x) V (x) for all x. Moreover, if there exists some strategy = (a, L, G ) such that v(x) = V (x; ), then v(x) = V (x) and is optimal. Proof For each given strategy = (a, L, G ) Π, let s define Λ L = {s : L s L s }, Λ G = {s : G s G s } = {τ1, τ2,, τn, }. Let ˆL t = (L s L s ) be the s Λ L,s t discontinuous part of L t and L t = L t ˆL t be the continuous part of L t. Similarly, Ĝ t and G t stand for the discontinuous and continuous parts of G t, respectively. Then, using Itô s formula, we have e δ(t T ) v(xt T ) v(x) = + e δs A a v(xs )ds + e δs v (X s )d L s + The sum of discontinuous parts of last term can be written as λµ (2) R e δs v (X s )db s e δs v (X s )d G s s Λ L Λ G,s t T e δs (v(x s ) v(x s )). (3.6) e δs (v(xs ) v(xs )) s Λ L Λ G,s t T = e δs (v(xs ) v(xs )) + e δs (v(xs ) v(xs )) s Λ L,s t T s Λ G,s t T e δs β 1 (L s L s ) + e δτ n (β2 ηn + K)I {τ n t T }, (3.7) s Λ L,s t T where the inequality holds, because v(x) satisfies the HJB (3.1) with v (x) β 1 and Mv(x) v(x). Moreover, in consideration of (3.1), the first term of the right hand side of (3.6) is
7 No. 6 Optimal dividend and financing problems for a diffusion model with excess-of-loss non-positive. Therefore, by substituting (3.7) into (3.6), we have e δ(t T ) v(xt T ) v(x) + λµ (2) R e δs v (X s )db s e δs β 1 dl s + e δτ n (β2 ηn + K)I {τ n t T }. (3.8) Because v(x) is an increasing function and v() P, we obtain e δ(t T ) P + e δs β 1 dl s e δτ n (β2 ηn + K)I {τ n t T } (2) v(x) + λµ R e δs v (Xs )db s. (3.9) Taking expectation and limitation on both sides yields v(x) E x (β 1 Consequently, v(x) V (x) follows. e δs dl s + P e δt 4 The Case without Capital Injection e δτ n (β2 ηn + K)I {τ n T }). (3.1) In this section, we consider the first case when the policy without capital injection is optimal. Hence, the corresponding boundary condition is v() = P and Mv() v(). Let x 1 = inf{x; v (x) = β 1 }. Then, the solution v(x) satisfies the following equations max a {Aa v(x)} =, x < x 1, (4.1) t N v (x) β 1 =, x x 1, (4.2) v() = P, (4.3) Mv() v(). (4.4) In fact, these equations indicate that the continuous region is (, x 1 ), and the dividend region is [x 1, ). For x < x 1, differentiating (4.1) with respect to a, we can obtain then let the derivative equal to zero yields λ F (a)[av (x) + v (x)] =, (4.5) a(x) = v (x) v (x), if v (x). (4.6) In view of (2.2), the maximizer of the left-side of (4.1) satisfies the above equation. Substituting (4.6) into (4.1) leads to λh(a)v (x) δv(x) =, (4.7)
8 138 Journal of Mathematics Vol. 38 where h(a) = µ (1) µ(2) R R (a) (a). It is easy to get h (a) = µ(2) R (a), h(a) and h( ) = µ (1). 2a 2a 2 Differentiating (4.7) yields from (4.8), we have Let λ[h (a)a (x) δ λ h(a) a ]v (x) =, (4.8) a (x) = Q(x) = x 2δ λ a2 + 2ah(a) µ (2) R (a). (4.9) µ (2) R (y) dy. (4.1) 2δ λ y2 + 2yh(y) It is easy to obtain that Q (x), so the inverse function of Q(x) exists, we have There exists some constant k such that a(x) = Q 1 (x + k). (4.11) Q(a()) = k. (4.12) Since a (x), the a(x) is a strictly increasing function. Next, we suppose that there exists a reinsurance level x is smaller than that for dividend x 1, that is, the insurer will keep all the claims when the surplus exceeds x, and we have Q(N) = x + k. Thus, from (4.12), we get For x < x, applying (4.3) and (4.6), we obtain x v(x) = k 3 e where k 3 is unknown coefficient. x = Q(N) Q(a()). (4.13) x y a(s) ds dy + P, x < x, (4.14) Meanwhile, for x x < x 1, we know that the HJB equation becomes a second-order ordinary differential equation Then the solution of (4.15) is of the form 1 2 λµ(2) v (x) + λµ (1) v (x) δv(x) =. (4.15) v(x) = k 1 e r+(x x1) + k 2 e r (x x1), x x < x 1, (4.16)
9 No. 6 Optimal dividend and financing problems for a diffusion model with excess-of-loss where k 1 and k 2 need to be determined, and r ± = µ(1) ± (µ (1) ) 2 + 2δµ (2) µ (2). (4.17) Finally, for x x 1, we have v (x) = β 1, and v(x) is continuous, we see v(x) = β 1 (x x 1 ) + v(x 1 ), x x 1. (4.18) Thus, the solution of HJB equation is x k 3 e x y a(s) ds dy + P, x x, v(x) = k 1 e r+(x x1) + k 2 e r (x x1), x x x 1, β 1 (x x 1 ) + v(x 1 ), x x 1. (4.19) According to the principle of smooth fit and calculating the first and the second derivatives of v(x) at x and x 1, respectively, we have Solving (4.2) and (4.21) leads to k 1 r + + k 2 = β 1, (4.2) k 1 (r + ) 2 + k 2 ( ) 2 =, (4.21) k 1 r + e r+(x x1) + k 2 e r (x x1) = k 3, (4.22) k 1 (r + ) 2 e r+(x x1) + k 2 ( ) 2 e r (x x1) = N k 3. (4.23) k 1 = β 1 r + (r + ) >, k 2 = Meanwhile, by multiplying (4.22) by N Thus, we can obtain β 1 r + <. (4.24) (r + ) and subtracting it from (4.23) yields e (r+ r )(x x1) = k 2 (N + ) k 1 r + (Nr + + ) = N +. (4.25) N + r + where x 1 > x holds since N + > N µ(2) 2µ (1) and 1 x 1 = x + ln( N + r + ), (4.26) r + N + So µ (2) = N x 2 df (x) < N N N + > N N 2 = N 2 xdf (x) = Nµ (1). >. (4.27)
10 14 Journal of Mathematics Vol. 38 Using (4.22) and (4.24), we get k 3 = β 1N N + r + ( N + r + N + ) Lemma 4.1 β 1 < k 3 < 2β 1. Proof According to the concavity of the log function, we get log k 3 = log β 1 + log N + [log(n + ) log(n + )]( r + r + >. (4.28) ) log(n + r + r + = log β 1 + log N [ log(n + ) log(n + )] r + r + r + r + > log β 1 + log N log[ (N + ) (N + )] r + r + r + = log β 1 + log N log N = log β 1, which implies β 1 < k 3. In addiction, we have k 3 = β 1 ( N+ N+ Together with (4.27), we derive that k 3 < β 1 (1 + r )( 1) N = r + r + k 3 N ) r + N N+ < N N/2 = 2β 1. r + ) < β 1 k3 N. Next, we come to determine the value a(), x and x 1. For x < x, combining with the boundary value v() = P and let x = in (4.7), we obtain λh(a())v () = δp. (4.29) From (4.13) and (4.26), we can know once the a() is determined, the value of x and x 1 can be calculated. In view of (4.14), we have v (x) = k 3 e Then, together with the (4.29), we obtain λk 3 h(a())e x x x a(s) ds. (4.3) a(s) ds = δp. (4.31) Let s apply a variable change of y = a(s) and use (4.9) and a(x ) = N, we get λk 3 g(a()) = δp, (4.32) h (y) δ where the function of g(x) is written as g(x) = h(x)e x y + h(y)dy 2 λ, x >. After some simple calculations, it is easy to know that g(+) =, g(n) = h(n) = µ (1) µ(2), and 2N N h (y) g (x) = h δ (x)e x y + h(y)dy 2 h(x) λ [1 δ x+h(x)] >. Then we obtain that the g(x) is a 2 λ strictly increasing function on [, N]. Thus we can get that (4.32) determines a unique root N
11 No. 6 Optimal dividend and financing problems for a diffusion model with excess-of-loss a() on [, N] if the condition P λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ) holds. Thus, we will confirm (4.4) in 2N the following cases. (1) If P λ δ k 3(µ (1) µ(2) 2N ) and β 2 v () = k 3 e x a(s) ds > β 1, we are aware of v (x) is decreasing on [, ), so v (x) β 2 holds for x. Thus Mv() v() = max {v(y) β 2y K} v() = K <, (4.4) holds. In this case Figure 1(a) is a graph of y v (x). (2) If P λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ) and 2N v () = k 3 e a(s) ds > β 2 k 3, we know that v (x) is strictly decreasing from v () to v (x 1 ) = β 1. Thus, there exists a unique number γ 1 (, x ) such that v (γ 1 ) = β 2. Then, we define an integral function I(γ) = γ x (v (x) β 2 )dx = v(γ) v() β 2 γ. (4.33) Obviously, (4.4) is valid if and only if when K I(γ 1 ). In this case Figure 1 (b) gives a graph of v (x). x (3) If P λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ) and 2N v () = k 3 e a(s) ds > k 3 β 2, similar to (2), we know that v (x) is strictly decreasing from v () to v (x 1 ) = β 1. Thus, there exists a unique number γ 2 (x, x 1 ) such that v (γ 2 ) = β 2. Then, we define an integral function J(γ 2 ) = γ2 x (v (x) β 2 )dx = v(γ 2 ) v(x ) β 2 (γ 2 x ), (4.34) we know J(γ 2 ) is decreasing with regard to β 2. (4.4) holds if and only if when K J(γ 2 ). β2 v () v () v () area equal to I(γ1) area equal to I(γ2) k3 v (x) = V (x) β2 v (x) = V (x) β2 area equal to J (γ2) v (x) = V (x) x x1 x γ1 x x1 x x γ2 x1 x (a) (b) (c) β2 v () v () area equal to I(γ3) β2 v (x) = V (x) v (x) = V (x) v (x) = V (x) = x1 x γ3 x1 x x1 = x (d) (e) Figure 1: The graph of the derivative v (x) = V (x). (f) In this case, Figure 1 (c) provides a graph of v (x).
12 142 Journal of Mathematics Vol. 38 If P > λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ), there is no solution to solve (4.32). In this case, it shows that 2N there does not exist x > such that a(x) < N for x < x. We set x =, which means that the insurer will keep all claims, i.e., a(x) N for x. The suggested solution to (4.1) (4.3) is of the form v(x) = { k1 e r+(x x1) + k 2 e r (x x1), x x 1, β 1 (x x 1 ) + v(x 1 ), x x 1. (4.35) According to the principle of smooth fit at x = x 1 and the boundary condition v() = P, we have k 1 e r+x1 + k 2 e r x1 = P. (4.36) In order to prove the existence of x 1, we define ϕ(x) = k 1 e r+x + k 2 e r x. We find that ϕ() = λµ(1), ϕ (x) < and ϕ( ) =. Therefore, when λk δ δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ) < P λµ(1) 2N δ holds, (4.37) will have a unique root of x 1 >. (4) If λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ) < P λµ(1) and β 2N δ 2 v () = k 1 r + e x1 + k 2 e x1 > β 1, we have v (x) β 2 for x, so v (x) is decreasing on [, ). Thus Mv() v() = max y {v(y) β 2y K} v() = K <, (4.4) holds. In this case, Figure 1 (d) is a graph of v (x). (5) If λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ) < P λµ(1) and v () = k 2N δ 1 r + e x1 + k 2 e x1 > β 2, we know that v (x) is strictly decreasing from v () to v (x 1 ) = β 1. Then there is a unique solution γ 3 (, x 1 ) such that v (γ 3 ) = β 2. Thus, (4.4) holds if and only if when K I(γ 3 ). In this case, Figure 1 (e) is a graph of v (x). (6) If P > λµ(1), there is no solution of (4.36). Therefore, we set x δ 1 =, which means that the insurance company will pay all current surplus as dividend at once. The solution is of form v(x) = β 1 x + P. In this case, Figure 1 (f) is a graph of v (x). 5 The Case with Capital Injection In this section, we consider the case with capital injection, namely, it is optimal to inject capital to prevent bankruptcy only when the surplus is null. Thus, the solution of g(x) should satisfy max a {Aa g(x)} =, x < b 1, (5.1) t N g (x) β 1 =, x b 1, (5.2) g() P, (5.3) Mg() g() =, (5.4) where b 1 is the level of the dividend policy. Similar to Section 4, we solve (5.1) (5.2) as the following cases.
13 No. 6 Optimal dividend and financing problems for a diffusion model with excess-of-loss (1) If P λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ), 2N v () = k 3 e a(s) ds > β 2 k 3 and K < I(γ 1 ), we determine a candidate solution of g(x) about some parameter p 1 >, b x+p 1 k 3 e z a(s) ds dz + P, x < b, g(x) = v(x + p 1) = (5.5) k 1 e r+(x b1) + k 2 e r (x b1), b x < b 1, x β 1 (x b 1 ) + λµ(1), x b 1, δ where b = x p 1, b 1 = x 1 p 1; x, x 1 and v(x) are written by (4.13), (4.26) and (4.19), respectively. Correspondingly, we define the optimal reinsurance strategy by a 1 (x) = a (x + p 1) = { G 1 (x + G(a()) + p 1), x < b, N, x b. (5.6) We get that g(x) and a 1 satisfy (5.1) (5.4). Then we will determine p 1 > by using (5.4). Denote φ(p) = φ(p; γ) := v(γ) v(p) β 2 (γ p) K, p γ. (5.7) Because of K < I(γ 1 ), we can get In addition, we obtain φ(; γ 1 ) = v(γ 1 ) v() β 2 γ 1 K = I(γ 1 ) K >. (5.8) φ(γ 1 ; γ 1 ) = K <, φ (p; γ 1 ) = β 2 v (p) <. (5.9) Therefore, there is a unique p 1 (, γ 1 ) satisfying φ(p 1; γ 1 ) =, that is g(l) g() β 2 l K =, (5.1) where l = γ 1 p 1 >. Noting that g (l) = v (γ 1 ) = β 2, then we have Mg() = max y {g(y) β 2y K} = g(l) β 2 l K = g(). (5.11) Thus, (5.1) (5.4) hold. In this case, Figure 2 (a) is a graph of v (x) = g (x). x (2) If P λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ), 2N v () = k 3 e a(s) ds > k 3 β 2 and J(γ 2 ) < K < I(γ 2 ), similar to (1), we define the following candidate solution x x+p 2 k 3 e z a(s) ds dz + P, x < u, g 2 (x) = v(x + p 2) = k 1 e r+(x u1) + k 2 e r (x u1) (5.12), u x < u 1, β 1 (x u 1 ) + λµ(1), x u 1, δ
14 144 Journal of Mathematics Vol. 38 v () v () g () β2 area equal to I(γ1) area equal to K g 2 () k3 area equal to I(γ2) area equal to K area equal to J (γ2) k3 v (x) β2 v (x) g (x) = V (x) g 2(x) = V (x) l1 γ1 b x b1 x1 x u l2 x γ2 u1 x1 x (a) (b) v () v () area equal to I(γ2) area equal to I(γ3) k3 g 3() β2 area equal to J (γ2) area equal to K g 4() β2 area equal to K v (x) g 3 (x) = V (x) v (x) g 4(x) = V (x) l3 x γ2 n1 x1 x l4 γ3 m1 x1 x (c) (d) Figure 2: The graph of the derivative g (x) = V (x). where u = x p 2 >, u 1 = x 1 p 2 > and p 2 (, x ) is the unique solution to φ(p; γ 2 ) =, i.e., g 2 (l 2 ) g 2 () β 2 l 2 K =, (5.13) where l 2 = γ 2 p 2 >. Meanwhile, define a optimal reinsurance policy by a 2 (x) = a (x + p 2) = { G 1 (x + G(a()) + p 2), x < u, N, x u. (5.14) Thus, (5.1) (5.4) hold. In this case, Figure 2 (b) gives a graph of v (x) = g 2(x). x (3) If P λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ), 2N v () = k 3 e m(s) ds > k 3 β 2 and < K J(γ 2 ) < I(γ 2 ), similar to (1) and (2), we define a candidate solution k 1 e r+(x n1) + k 2 e r (x n1), x < n 1, g 3 (x) = v(x + p 3) = β 1 (x n 1 ) + λµ(1), δ x n 1, where n 1 = x 1 p 3 >, and p 3 [x, γ 2 ) is the unique solution to φ(p; γ 2 ) =, i.e., (5.15) g 3 (l 3 ) g 3 () β 2 l 3 K =, (5.16) where l 3 = γ 2 p 3 >. The optimal reinsurance strategy is a 3 (x) N. Thus, (5.1) (5.4) hold. In this case, Figure 2 (c) is a graph of v (x) = g 3(x).
15 No. 6 Optimal dividend and financing problems for a diffusion model with excess-of-loss (4) If λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ) < P λµ(1), v () = k 2N δ 1 r + + k 2 > β 2 and K < I(γ 2 ), similar to (1), (2) and (3), we define a candidate solution k 1 e r+(x m1) + k 2 e r (x m1), x < m 1, g 4 (x) = v(x + p 4) = (5.17) β 1 (x m 1 ) + λµ(1), x m 1, δ where m 1 = x 1 p 4 >, and p 4 (, γ 3 ) is the unique solution to φ(p; γ 3 ) =, i.e., g 4 (l 4 ) g 4 () β 2 l 4 K =, (5.18) where l 4 = γ 3 p 4 >. The optimal reinsurance strategy is a 4 (x) N. Thus, (5.1) (5.4) hold. In this case, Figure 2 (d) provides a graph of v (x) = g 4(x). Based on the above analysis, we identify the explicit solution to the value function and construct the associated optimal strategy in the following. In order to the following theorem, let L t (u) = (x u) + + t I {X s u} dl s. (5.19) Theorem 5.1 The value function V (x) and the corresponding optimal reinsurance policy = (a, L, G ) are given in the following different cases. x Case 1 If P λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ) and β 2N 2 v () = k 3 e a(s) ds > β 1, then the value function V (x) coincides with v(x) in (4.19), and the optimal retention level is a = { G 1 (x + G(a()), x < x, N, x x. (5.2) x a(s) ds > β 2 k 3, then the value Case 2 If P λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ) and 2N v () = k 3 e function and the optimal retention level take the same forms as those in Case 1. x a(s) ds > k 3 β 2, then the value Case 3 If P λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ) and 2N v () = k 3 e function and the optimal retention level take the same forms as Case 1. Case 4 If λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ) < P λµ(1) and β 2N δ 2 v () = k 1 r + e x1 + k 2 e x1 > β 1, then the value function V (x) coincides with v(x) in (4.37), and the optimal retention level is a N for all x, which means that the insurance don t take any reinsurance. Case 5 If λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ) < P λµ(1) and v () = k 2N δ 1 r + e x1 + k 2 e x1 > β 2, then the value and the optimal retention level take the same forms as Case 4. Case 6 If P > λµ(1), then V (x) = β δ 1 x + P. Paying all of the surplus as dividend is the optimal policy, and then claim the terminal value P at once. x Case 7 If P λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ), 2N v () = k 3 e a(s) ds > β 2 k 3 and K < I(γ 1 ), then the value function V (x) coincides with g(x) and the optimal retention level in (5.5)
16 146 Journal of Mathematics Vol. 38 and (5.6), respectively. It is optimal to refinance if and only if the surplus is null, and the surplus immediately jumps to l 1 = γ 1 p 1 when it reaches by issuing equities. So, G is written as I {t:x t >}dg t =, τ 1 = inf{t : X t = }, τ n = inf{t > τ n 1 : X t = }, n = 2, 3,, l n l 1 = γ 1 p 1, n = 1, 2,. (5.21) Case 8 If P λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ), 2N v () = k 3 e a(s) ds > k 3 β 2 and J(γ 2 ) < K < I(γ 2 ), then the value function V (x) is identical to g 2 (x) in (5.12), G is written as l n l 2 = γ 2 p 2, n = 1, 2, and the optimal reinsurance strategy a 2 is characterised by (5.14). x Case 9 If P < λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ), 2N v () = k 3 e m(s) ds > k 3 β 2 and < K J(γ 2 ) < I(γ 2 ), then the value function V (x) coincides with g 3 (x) in (5.15), G is written as ln l3 = γ2 p 3, n = 1, 2, and the optimal reinsurance strategy is a (x) N. Case 1 If λk δ 3(µ (1) µ(2) ) < P λµ(1), v () = k 2N δ 1 r + k 2 > β 2 and K < I(γ 3 ), then the value function V (x) is identical to g 4 (x) in (5.17), G is written as ln l4 = γ3 p 4, n = 1, 2, and the optimal reinsurance strategy is a (x) N. Proof Here we only prove Case 7 in detail as an example and the other cases also can be proved by this method. By verifying the second derivative of g(x), we can check the concavity of g(x) function. For x < b, we have x g (x) = k 3 a(x) e b x+p 1 a(s) ds <. For b x < b 1, we obtain g (x) = k 1 (r + ) 2 e r+(x b1) + k 2 ( ) 2 e r (x b1) = e r (x b1) [k 1 (r + ) 2 e (r+ r )(x b1) + k 2 ( ) 2 ] = r + r + e r (x b1) [1 e (r+ r )(x b1) ] <. (5.22) In addition, we can prove that the value function g(x) is indeed an increasing, concave and twice continuously differentiable solution to equations (3.1) and (3.2). Using Theorem 3.1, we can show that the solution to HJB eq.(3.1) and (3.2) exactly equal to the value function. Thus, g(x) V (x) holds according to Theorem 3.1. Here we omit the details when g(x) satisfies (3.1) and (3.2). Then, from (5.6), (5.19) and (5.21) we will check the
17 No. 6 Optimal dividend and financing problems for a diffusion model with excess-of-loss optimal policy = (a, L, G ) Π, where u = b 1 in (5.19). Because of A a 1 g(x t ) = for Xt b 1, it follows e δs A a 1 g(x s )ds = e δs A a Meanwhile, (5.6), (5.19) and (5.21) indicate that = = e δs (g(x s ) g(xs )) G,s t T e δs (g(x s ) g(xs ))I {X s =b1} +,s t T s Λ L Λ s Λ L s Λ L e δs β 1 (L s,s t T L s ) + e δτn 1 g(x s Λ (β2 η n s )I { X s b1} ds =. (5.23) e δs (g(xs G,s t T ) g(x s ))I {X s =} + K)I {τ n t T }. (5.24) Thus, from (3.6), substituting, T, u with, T get =, b 1 and taking expectations, we g(x) = E x [e δt g(x t )] + E x (β 1 t e δs dl s e δτn (β2 η n Let t, the first term on the right hand side vanishes, therefore, we have g(x) = E x (β 1 e δs dl s e δτn (β2 η n considering g(x) V (x), we check that g(x) = V (x) = V (x; ). + K)I {τ n t} ). (5.25) + K)I {τ n } ) = V (x; ), (5.26) References [1] Taksar M, Zhou Xunyu. Optimal risk and dividend control for a companry with debt liability[j]. Insur. Math. Econ., 1998, 22: [2] Asmussen S, Hφjaard B, Taksar M. Optimal risk control and dividend distribution policies. Example of excess-of-loss reinsurance for an insurance corporation[j]. Fin. Stoch., 2, [3] Cadenillas A, Choulli T, Taksar M, Zhang Lei. Classical and impulse stochastic control for the optimization of the dividned and risk polices of an insurance firm[j]. Math. Fin., 26, 16(1): [4] Zhang Xin, Zhou Ming, Guo Junyi. Optimal combinational quota-share and excess-of-loss reinsurance polices in a dynamic setting[j]. Appl. Stoch. Models Bus. Ind., 27, 23: [5] Xu Jingfeng, Zhou Ming. Optimal risk control control and dividend distribution policies for a diffusion model with terminal value[j]. Math. Comp. Model., 212, 56: [6] He Lin, Liang Zongxia. Optimal financing and dividend control of the insurance company with proportional reinsurance policy[j]. Insur. Math. Econ., 28, 42:
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