Total loss estimation using copula-based regression models

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DOI10.1016/J.INSMATHECO.2013.09.003zbMATH Open1290.91092arXiv1209.5356OpenAlexW2141088203MaRDI QIDQ2015655FDOQ2015655

Daniel Silvestrini, Nicole KrΓ€mer, Eike Christian Brechmann, Claudia Czado

Publication date: 23 June 2014

Published in: Insurance Mathematics \& Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a joint copula-based model for insurance claims and sizes. It uses bivariate copulae to accommodate for the dependence between these quantities. We derive the general distribution of the policy loss without the restrictive assumption of independence. We illustrate that this distribution tends to be skewed and multi-modal, and that an independence assumption can lead to substantial bias in the estimation of the policy loss. Further, we extend our framework to regression models by combining marginal generalized linear models with a copula. We show that this approach leads to a flexible class of models, and that the parameters can be estimated efficiently using maximum-likelihood. We propose a test procedure for the selection of the optimal copula family. The usefulness of our approach is illustrated in a simulation study and in an analysis of car insurance policies.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.5356





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