On Gerber-Shiu functions and optimal dividend distribution for a Lévy risk process in the presence of a penalty function

DOI10.1214/14-AAP1038MaRDI QIDQ2354887zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors F. Avram, Zbigniew Palmowski, Martijn R. Pistorius

Publication date 27 July 2015

Published in The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.4965, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1432212432

zbMATH Keywords

de Finetti modeldynamic programmingGerber-Shiu functionsHamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equationimpulse controlLévy risk processoptimal dividend distributionsingular controlstate-constraint problemstochastic controlstochastic solution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic programming in optimal control and differential games (49L20) Processes with independent increments; Lévy processes (60G51) Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.) (60H30) Optimal stochastic control (93E20)

Abstract: This paper concerns an optimal dividend distribution problem for an insurance company whose risk process evolves as a spectrally negative L'{e}vy process (in the absence of dividend payments). The management of the company is assumed to control timing and size of dividend payments. The objective is to maximize the sum of the expected cumulative discounted dividend payments received until the moment of ruin and a penalty payment at the moment of ruin, which is an increasing function of the size of the shortfall at ruin; in addition, there may be a fixed cost for taking out dividends. A complete solution is presented to the corresponding stochastic control problem. It is established that the value-function is the unique stochastic solution and the pointwise smallest stochastic supersolution of the associated HJB equation. Furthermore, a necessary and sufficient condition is identified for optimality of a single dividend-band strategy, in terms of a particular Gerber-Shiu function. A number of concrete examples are analyzed.

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