We study the infinite time ruin probability for an insurance company in the classical Cramér-Lundberg model with finite exponential moments. The additional non-classical feature is that the company is also allowed to invest in some stock market, modeled by geometric Brownian motion. We obtain an exact analogue of the classical estimate for the ruin probability without investment, i.e., an exponential inequality. The exponent is larger than the one obtained without investment, the classical Lundberg adjustment coefficient, and thus one gets a sharper bound on the ruin probability. A surprising result is that the trading strategy yielding the optimal asymptotic decay of the ruin probability simply consists in holding a fixed quantity (which can be explicitly calculated) in the risky asset, independent of the current reserve. This result is in apparent contradiction to the common believe that 'rich' companies should invest more in risky assets than 'poor' ones. The reason for this seemingly paradoxical result is that the minimization of the ruin probability is an extremely conservative optimization criterion, especially for 'rich' companies. (author's abstract) / Series: Working Papers SFB "Adaptive Information Systems and Modelling in Economics and Management Science"

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-07-11T20:52:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ANTONIO LUIZ SOARES SANTOS - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGMAT 2007..pdf: 419776 bytes, checksum: 648bbdd93c2d2fdd67f2dd99256a1ff7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-11T20:52:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ANTONIO LUIZ SOARES SANTOS - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGMAT 2007..pdf: 419776 bytes, checksum: 648bbdd93c2d2fdd67f2dd99256a1ff7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02 / Neste trabalho estudamos o processo de risco a tempo discreto, considerado modelo clássico na teoria do risco, com variantes propostas por Jun Cai e David Dickson (2004). Serão incluídas taxas de juros, as quais seguem uma Cadeia de Markov, e seus efeitos, em relação à probabilidade de ruína serão analisados. O conhecido limitante superior proposto por Lundberg para essa probabilidade fica reduzido em virtude dessa nova abordagem e a desigualdade clássica é generalizada. / In this work we study discrete time risk process considered classical model, with variants proposed by Jun Cai and David Dickson (2004). Rates of interest, which follows a Markov chain will be introduced and their effect on the ruin probabilities will be analysed. Generalized Lundberg inequalities will be obtained and shown how the classical bounds for the ruin probability can be derived.