Optimal reinsurance with multiple tranches |
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Institution: | 1. China Institute for Actuarial Science, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081, PR China;2. School of Management, University of China Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China;3. Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia |
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Abstract: | Motivated by common practices in the reinsurance industry and in insurance markets such as Lloyd’s, we study the general problem of optimal insurance contracts design in the presence of multiple insurance providers. We show that the optimal risk allocation rule is characterized by a hierarchical structure of risk sharing where all agents take on risks only above the endogenously determined thresholds, or agent-specific deductibles. Linear risk sharing between two adjacent thresholds is shown to be optimal when all agents have CARA utilities. Furthermore, we show that the optimal thresholds can be efficiently calculated through the fixed point of a contraction mapping. |
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Keywords: | Risk sharing Insurance Reinsurance Contract design |
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