1. Introduction
Consider a discrete-time risk model, where, for every
, the insurer’s net loss (the aggregate claim amount minus the total premium income) within period
i is represented by a real-valued random variable (r.v.)
; and the stochastic discount factor from time
i to time
is denoted by a positive r.v.
. In the terminology in [
1],
and
are called the insurance risks and financial risks, respectively. Throughout this paper, we suppose that
is a sequence of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) real-valued r.v.s with a common distribution
F;
is another sequence of i.i.d. positive r.v.s with a common distribution
G; and the random vectors
are independent copies of
following a certain dependence structure (see (
7) below). In this framework, we are interested in the following quantities:
with the maxima
where
denotes the stochastic discounted value of aggregate net losses within time
n. Then, the two-tail probabilities
and
can be interpreted as the finite-time ruin probability within period
n and the infinite-time ruin probability, respectively, where
stands for the initial wealth of the insurer. Clearly,
as
. The right-hand side converges almost surely (a.s.), if
and
(see Theorem 1.6 in [
2] and Theorem 1 in [
3]). Thus,
converges a.s. to the limit
, which has a proper distribution on
. In this paper, we aim to investigate the asymptotic behavior of the tail probabilities
,
and
as
.
In such a discrete-time risk model, under independence or some certain dependence assumptions imposed on
s and
s, the asymptotic tail behavior of
and
has been extensively studied by many researchers. Notice that the assumption of complete independence is for mathematical convenience, but appears unrealistic in most practical situations. A recent new trend of study is to introduce various dependence structures to describe the insurance and financial risks
and
. One trend is to require the insurance risks
to obey a certain dependence structure (see [
4,
5,
6] among others). Another trend is to assume that
form a sequence of i.i.d. random vectors, but for each
, some certain dependence structure exists between
and
. Such a work was initially studied by [
7]. Chen considered the discrete-time risk model, in which each pair of the insurance and financial risks form the bivariate Farlie–Gumbel–Morgenstern (FGM) distribution. Later, Yang and Konstantinides extended Chen’s results in [
5], by considering a more general dependence structure than the FGM one. They derived the uniform estimates for the finite-time and infinite-time ruin probabilities, under the assumption that
are of consistent variation. For more details, one can be refereed to [
8,
9,
10,
11] among others. We remark that all of the above works are studied in the heavy-tailed case, while, in this paper, we consider the light-tailed case, that is, the insurance risks are Gamma-like tailed, thus are light-tailed.
Throughout the paper, all limit relationships hold for x tending to ∞ unless stated otherwise. For two positive functions and , we write ∼ if ; write or if ; and write if . For two real-valued numbers x and y, denote by , and denote the positive part of x by . The indicator function of an event A is denoted by .
A distribution
F on
is said to be Gamma-like tailed with shape parameter
and scale parameter
if there exists a slow function
such that
(see [
12,
13]). A larger distribution class is that of generalized exponential distributions. A distribution
F on
is said to belong to the class
with
, if for any
,
Clearly, if
, the class
consists of all long-tailed distributions, which are heavy-tailed. If
, then all distributions in the class
are light-tailed. A class larger than the generalized exponential distribution class
is that of rapidly varying tailed distributions. A distribution
F on
is said to be rapidly varying tailed, denoted by
, if
holds for all
. For a distribution
, from Theorem 1.2.2 of [
14], it can be seen that for any
and
, there exists a sufficiently large constant
such that for all
,
We remark that if a distribution F is Gamma-like tailed with and , then holds.
In the case of light-tailed insurance risks, in [
15,
16] Tang and his coauthor first established some asymptotic formulas for the finite-time ruin probability
under the independence structure, and the conditions that the insurance risks
s have a common convolution-equivalent or a rapidly varying tail, and the financial risks
s have a common distribution
G with a finite upper endpoint
Precisely speaking, consider a discrete-time risk model, in which
and
are two sequences of i.i.d. r.v.s with common distributions
F and
G, respectively, and these two sequences are mutually independent. If
and
G have a finite upper endpoint
with
, then, for each fixed
,
Recently, in [
17] Yang and Yuen derived some more precise results than relation (
6) in the presence of Gamma-like tailed insurance risks, under the independence structure or a certain dependence structure, where each pair of the insurance risks and the financial risks follow a bivariate Sarmanov distribution (see the definition below). They investigated the asymptotic tail behavior of
,
and
in three cases of
and
, respectively, and dropped the condition
.
In this paper, we restrict ourselves to the framework in which a more general dependence structure exists between each pair of the insurance risks and the financial risks. Precisely speaking, the random vectors of the insurance and financial risks
are assumed to be i.i.d. copies of a generic pair
with the dependent components
X and
Y fulfilling the relation
holding uniformly for all
as
, i.e.,
Here,
is a positive measurable function, and if
y is not a possible value of
Y, then the left side of relation (
7) consists of the unconditional probability; thus,
equals to 1. Such a dependence structure (
7) was introduced by [
18], which contains many commonly-used bivariate copulas, such as the Ali–Mikhail–Haq copula, the Farlie–Gumbel–Morgenstern copula, and the Frank copula among others, and allows both positive and negative dependence structures. We remark that if
for all
, then relation (
7) leads to
. See [
19,
20,
21] for more details on such a dependence structure. In particular, if
X and
Y follow a bivariate Sarmanov distribution defined by
and assume that the limit
exists, then it can be directly verified that relation (
7) is satisfied with
.
Motivated by [
17], in this paper, we aim to study the asymptotic tail relations of
,
and
in two cases, i.e.,
and
, under the assumption that
are i.i.d. random vectors with dependent components fulfilling relation (
7). In the case
, we also obtain a uniform result for both finite-time and infinite-time ruin probabilities, by considering the asymptotic formulas for
and
. We still restrict the insurance risks to be Gamma-like tailed. Our obtained results essentially extend the corresponding ones in [
17].
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In
Section 2, the main results of the present paper are provided, and
Section 3 displays their proofs. In
Section 4, we perform a simulation to verify the approximate relationships in the main results by using the Crude Monte Carlo (CMC) method.
4. Simulation Study
In this section, we conduct a simulation study through the software MATLAB R2014a (The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA, USA) to verify the asymptotic relation (
10) for the finite-time ruin probability in the main theoretical result Theorem 1.
Assume that
is a sequence of i.i.d. random vectors with a generic pair
, where the insurance risk
X follows a common exponential distribution with parameters
,
which satisfies the Gamma-tailed distribution defined in relation (
3). Note that if
, then relation (
3) is the tail distribution of exponential distribution. The financial risk
Y follows a common discrete distribution:
Y | 0.2 | 0.6 | 1 |
| 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
We assume
X and
Y follow a bivariate FGM distribution
with parameter
. Note that the bivariate FGM distribution is included by the dependence structure defined in relation (
7).
The following algorithm is used to generate the component r.v.s X and Y of i.i.d. random vectors , fulfilling the bivariate FGM distribution:
Step a: Generate two i.i.d. r.v.s u and v following the uniform distribution on ;
Step b: Set ;
Step c: Set , if , then ; if , then ; if , then .
Thus, the generated returns the outcome of two dependent r.v.s. fulling the bivariate FGM distribution.
We use the CMC method to perform the simulation. The computation procedure of the estimation of the theoretical finite-time ruin probability is listed as the following:
Step 1: Assign a value for the variate x and set ;
Step 2: Generate the i.i.d. r.v.s random vectors satisfying the certain dependence structure according to the above algorithm;
Step 3: Calculate the vector . Then, is equal to the product of the two vectors and ;
Step 4: Select the maximum value from and denote it by , and compare with x: if ; then, ;
Step 5: Repeat step 2 to step 4 for N times;
Step 6: Calculate as the estimate of .
Step 7: Repeat step 1 to step 6 for l times, and set the mean of all as the final estimate.
All parameters are set as:
,
,
,
,
and
. We set the initial asset
x from 100 to 150 and compare the simulated estimate values with the asymptotic values of the finite-time ruin probability in the following
Table 1.
The standard error of each estimate computed via the CMC method is presented in the bracket behind the estimate. Without surprise, the larger the initial wealth
x is, the smaller both the simulated estimate values and the asymptotic values of the ruin probability become, but the more fluctuation their ratio exhibits, the less effective the estimates are. In fact, this is due to the poor performance of the CMC method, which requires a sufficiently large sample size to meet the demands of high accuracy. In order to eliminate the influence of large initial wealth, we repeat the simulation with the sample size
N increasing from 10,000,000 up to 15,000,000. A significant improvement is observed. See
Table 2 below.