Title
Fourier-cosine method for ruin probabilities
Abstract
In theory, ruin probabilities in classical insurance risk models can be expressed in terms of an infinite sum of convolutions, but its inherent complexity makes efficient computation almost impossible. In contrast, Fourier transforms of convolutions could be evaluated in a far simpler manner. This feature aligns with the heuristic of the recently popular work by Fang and Oosterlee, in particular, they developed a numerical method based on Fourier transform for option pricing. We here promote their philosophy to ruin theory. In this paper, we not only introduce the Fourier-cosine method to ruin theory, which has O ( n ) computational complexity, but we also enhance the error bound for our case that are not immediate from Fang and Oosterlee (2009). We also suggest a robust method on estimation of ruin probabilities with respect to perturbation of the moments of both claim size and claim arrival distributions. Rearrangement inequality will also be adopted to amplify the Fourier-cosine method, resulting in an effective global estimation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.cam.2014.12.014
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
summation by parts,gibbs phenomena
Gibbs phenomenon,Mathematical optimization,Heuristic,Series (mathematics),Convolution,Mathematical analysis,Rearrangement inequality,Fourier transform,Ruin theory,Mathematics,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
281
C
0377-0427
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
K.W. Chau100.34
Sheung Chi Phillip Yam252.32
Hailiang Yang340.77