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A Risk Model with Delayed Claims

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2018

Angelos Dassios*
Affiliation:
London School of Economics
Hongbiao Zhao*
Affiliation:
London School of Economics
*
Postal address: Department of Statistics, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK.
Postal address: Department of Statistics, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK.
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Abstract

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In this paper we introduce a simple risk model with delayed claims, an extension of the classical Poisson model. The claims are assumed to arrive according to a Poisson process and claims follow a light-tailed distribution, and each loss payment of the claims will be settled with a random period of delay. We obtain asymptotic expressions for the ruin probability by exploiting a connection to Poisson models that are not time homogeneous. A finer asymptotic formula is obtained for the special case of exponentially delayed claims and an exact formula is obtained when the claims are also exponentially distributed.

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Research Article
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© Applied Probability Trust 

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