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Ordered by a blend of empirical rigor (60%) and math complexity (40%).

Monopoly Pricing of Weather Index Insurance

This study models the monopoly pricing of weather index insurance as a Bowley-type sequential game involving a profit-maximizing insurer (leader) and a farmer (follower). The farmer chooses an insurance payoff to minimize a convex distortion risk measure, while the insurer anticipates this best resp

Holy Grail Math 8 Rigor 7.5 ·  December 1, 2025

Fairness-Aware Insurance Pricing: A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach

Machine learning improves predictive accuracy in insurance pricing but exacerbates trade-offs between competing fairness criteria across different discrimination measures, challenging regulators and insurers to reconcile profitability with equitable outcomes. While existing fairness-aware models off

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 7.5 ·  December 31, 2025

Pareto-optimal reinsurance under dependence uncertainty

This paper studies Pareto-optimal reinsurance design in a monopolistic market with multiple primary insurers and a single reinsurer, all with heterogeneous risk preferences. The risk preferences are characterized by a family of risk measures, called Range Value-at-Risk (RVaR), which includes both Va

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 3 ·  December 12, 2025

Optimal Ratcheting of Dividends with Irreversible Reinsurance

This paper considers an insurance company that faces two key constraints: a ratcheting dividend constraint and an irreversible reinsurance constraint. The company allocates part of its reserve to pay dividends to its shareholders while strategically purchasing reinsurance for its claims. The ratchet

Lab Rats Math 8 Rigor 3 ·  August 30, 2024

Optimal Dividend, Reinsurance, and Capital Injection for Collaborating Business Lines under Model Uncertainty

This paper considers an insurer with two collaborating business lines that faces three critical decisions: (1) dividend payout, (2) reinsurance coverage, and (3) capital injection between the lines, in the presence of model uncertainty. The insurer considers the reference model to be an approximatio

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 2.5 ·  March 26, 2026

Optimal Dividend, Reinsurance and Capital Injection Strategies for Collaborating Business Lines: The Case of Excess-of-Loss Reinsurance

This paper considers an insurer with two collaborating business lines that must make three critical decisions: (1) dividend payout, (2) a combination of proportional and excess-of-loss reinsurance coverage, and (3) capital injection between the lines. The reserve level of each line is modeled using

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 2.5 ·  November 14, 2025

Optimal Dividend, Reinsurance, and Capital Injection Strategies for an Insurer with Two Collaborating Business Lines

This paper considers an insurer with two collaborating business lines, and the risk exposure of each line follows a diffusion risk model. The manager of the insurer makes three decisions for each line: (i) dividend payout, (ii) (proportional) reinsurance coverage, and (iii) capital injection (from o

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 2.5 ·  August 11, 2025

Optimal insurance design with Lambda-Value-at-Risk

This paper explores optimal insurance solutions based on the Lambda-Value-at-Risk ($Λ\VaR$). If the expected value premium principle is used, our findings confirm that, similar to the VaR model, a truncated stop-loss indemnity is optimal in the $Λ\VaR$ model. We further provide a closed-form express

Lab Rats Math 8.5 Rigor 2.5 ·  August 19, 2024

Pareto and Bowley Reinsurance Games in Peer-to-Peer Insurance

We propose a peer-to-peer (P2P) insurance scheme comprising a risk-sharing pool and a reinsurer. A plan manager determines how risks are allocated among members and ceded to the reinsurer, while the reinsurer sets the reinsurance loading. Our work focuses on the strategic interaction between the pla

Lab Rats Math 7.5 Rigor 3 ·  February 15, 2026

Optimal insurance with mean-deviation measures

This paper studies an optimal insurance contracting problem in which the preferences of the decision maker given by the sum of the expected loss and a convex, increasing function of a deviation measure. As for the deviation measure, our focus is on convex signed Choquet integrals (such as the Gini c

Lab Rats Math 8 Rigor 2.5 ·  December 4, 2023

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