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MEAN–VARIANCE INSURANCE DESIGN WITH COUNTERPARTY RISK AND INCENTIVE COMPATIBILITY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2021

Tim J. Boonen Open the ORCID record for Tim J. Boonen [Opens in a new window]  and
Wenjun Jiang
Tim J. Boonen
Affiliation:
Amsterdam School of Economics University of Amsterdam 1001 NJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands E-Mail: t.j.boonen@uva.nl
Wenjun Jiang*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Calgary Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada
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E-Mail: wenjun.jiang@ucalgary.ca
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Abstract

This paper studies the optimal insurance design from the perspective of an insured when there is possibility for the insurer to default on its promised indemnity. Default of the insurer leads to limited liability, and the promised indemnity is only partially recovered in case of a default. To alleviate the potential ex post moral hazard, an incentive compatibility condition is added to restrict the permissible indemnity function. Assuming that the premium is determined as a function of the expected coverage and under the mean–variance preference of the insured, we derive the explicit structure of the optimal indemnity function through the marginal indemnity function formulation of the problem. It is shown that the optimal indemnity function depends on the first and second order expectations of the random recovery rate conditioned on the realized insurable loss. The methodology and results in this article complement the literature regarding the optimal insurance subject to the default risk and provide new insights on problems of similar types.

Keywords

Optimal insurancemean–variance optimizationcounterparty riskmarginal indemnity functionC70G22
Type
Research Article
Information
ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , May 2022 , pp. 645 - 667
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The International Actuarial Association

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