1. Introduction
The classical compound Poisson risk model has been extensively analyzed in the actuarial literature. One of the key assumptions of this model is that the inter-claim times and the claim amounts are independent. This assumption can be rather restrictive in applications. For example, in the case of earthquake damages, it is usually believed that the longer the period between earthquakes, the greater the damages expected.
In this paper, we consider a compound Poisson risk model in which the inter-claim time and the subsequent claim size are statistically dependent. Specifically, we assume that the claim sizes
,
are non-negative independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables (rv’s) with common distribution function (df)
. The claim arrival process
is modelled as a homogeneous Poisson process with intensity
. Let
,
denotes the
ith inter-claim waiting time. Then they following i.i.d. exponential distribution with rate
. Crucially, we assume that the bivariate random vectors
are mutually independent but that the r.v.’s
and
are no longer independent. As usual, the aggregate claim process
over a finite time horizon
is defined as
Risk models that consider the dependence between the waiting time
and the claim size
have been studied extensively in the literature. For example, Boudreault et al. [
2] introduced a dependence structure where the conditional density of
is defined through a mixture of functions. They provided explicit expressions for quantities of interest, such as the ruin probability and the Gerber-Shiu function for a large class of claim size distributions. Asimit and Badescu [1] proposed a general dependence structure for
via the conditional tail probability of
. As stated in [
3], this dependence structure is satisfied by several commonly used bivariate copulas and allows for both positive and negative dependencies. It is also very useful for analyzing the tail behavior of the sum or product of two dependent random variables. Under this dependence structure and assuming that the distribution of the claim amounts has a heavy tail, Asimit and Badescu [1] derived the asymptotic finite-time ruin probabilities and asymptotic results for Value at Risk (VaR) and Tail Conditional Expectation (TCE) of the aggregate losses. For other applications of this dependence structure in risk analysis and probability theory, one may refer to, for example, [
3,
4,
5], among others. Barges et al. [
6] studied the moments of the compound Poisson sums when the dependence between the inter-claim time and the subsequent claim size is modelled by a Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern copula. Zhang and Chen [
7] provided closed-form formulas for the densities of the discounted aggregate claims by assuming that the dependence is through mixing.
The moment (size-biased) transform of distributions, studied in [
8], is a useful statistical tool, which has been exploited in many research areas. In risk management, for example, Furman and Landsman [
9] applied moment transforms to compute the TCE. Further, Furman and Landsman [
10] showed that the Tail Variance (TV) and other weighted risk measures can also be determined by moment transforms. More recently, Denuit [
11] obtained the size-biased transform of compound sums and illustrated their applications in determining the TCE. Ren [
12] studied the moment transform of both univariate and multivariate compound sums, and derived formulas to efficiently compute TCE, TV and higher tail moments.
In this paper, as detailed in
Section 2, we assume that the dependence between the waiting time
and the claim size
is as proposed in [1]. We apply moment transforms to analyze TCE and TV of the risk process with dependence. Our approach generalizes that proposed in [1], which is based on extreme value theory. It allows us to derive the asymptotic results for the TCE, TV, and even higher tail moments. In addition, our numerical examples show that our asymptotic results provide more accurate values of TCE than those computed using the method in Asimit and Badescu [1].
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows.
Section 2 provides some preliminary results and definitions needed.
Section 3 presents asymptotic results for the first two tail moments of the aggregate claims with heavy-tailed claim amounts.
Section 4 provides numerical examples with detailed computations to illustrate the results we obtained and compares with the existing results.
Section 5 concludes.