Probabilities of Ruin in Economics and Insurance under Light- and Heavy-tailed Distributions

This research is conducted on ruin problems in two fields. First, the ruin or survival of an economic agent over finite and infinite time horizons is explored for a one-good economy. A recursive relation derived for the intractable ruin distribution is used to compute its moments. A new system of Ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kim, Hyeonju
Other Authors: Bhattacharya, Rabindra N.
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556962