On moments of downward passage times for spectrally negative Lévy processes

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Abstract: The existence of moments of first downward passage times of a spectrally negative L'evy process is governed by the general dynamics of the L'evy process, i.e. whether the L'evy process is drifting to +infty, infty or oscillates. Whenever the L'evy process drifts to +infty, we prove that the kappa-th moment of the first passage time (conditioned to be finite) exists if and only if the (kappa+1)-th moment of the L'evy jump measure exists. This generalises a result shown earlier by Delbaen for Cram'er-Lundberg risk processes cite{Delbaen1990}. Whenever the L'evy process drifts to infty, we prove that all moments of the first passage time exist, while for an oscillating L'evy process we derive conditions for non-existence of the moments and in particular we show that no integer moments exist.









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