Time-consistent reinsurance-investment strategy for mean-variance insurers with defaultable security and jumps

Year 2018, Volume: 47 Issue: 3, 763 - 781, 01.06.2018

Qiang Zhang Qianqian Cui Ping Chen

Abstract

This paper studies an optimal reinsurance-investment problem for a mean-variance insurer with defaultable security and jumps. Specially, we assume that the risky asset's price process is described by a geometric Lévy process. By using a game theoretic approach, we establish the extended Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman system for the post-default case and the pre-default case, respectively. Furthermore, we derive the closed-from expressions for the time-consistent reinsurance-investment strategy and the corresponding value function. Finally, we provide numerical examples to illustrate the impacts of model parameters on the time-consistent strategy.

Keywords

Mean-variance, Proportional reinsurance, Time-consistent strategy, Defaultable bond, Geometric Lévy process

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