The paper analyzes strategic behavior in reinsurance transactions leading to Nash equilibria.
problem Strategic behavior in reinsurance transactions affecting risk aversion and welfare gains.
method Identifying Nash equilibria within a class of risk measures.
result At strictly beneficial Nash equilibria, agents appear homogeneous in risk preferences.
This paper simplifies the Nash Bargaining Solution for use in intellectual property cases.
problem Limited application of Nash Bargaining Solution in assigning intellectual property damages.
method Normalizes the Nash Bargaining Solution and provides a methodology for determining bargaining weight.
result Clarifies the application of Nash Bargaining Solution to specific case facts.
A new approach to group fairness treats it as a bargaining problem.
problem Fairness in deploying predictors across subpopulations.
method Interpreting fairness as a bargaining problem and proposing relative improvement.
result Relative improvement provides axiomatic justification and finite-sample convergence guarantees.
Paper refines royalty determination using Bayesian methods.
problem Determining a reasonable royalty with risk and uncertainty.
method Bayesian Cost approach to refine Nash Bargaining Solution.
result Nash Bargaining Solution emerges as more reliable.
A reinsurance contract should address the conflicting interests of the insurer and reinsurer. Most of existing optimal reinsurance contracts only considers the interests of one party. This article combines the proportional and stop-loss reinsurance contracts and introduces a new reinsurance contract called proportional…
Study optimal reinsurance strategies in a game between insurer and two reinsurers.
problem Optimal reinsurance strategies in a competitive market.
method Stochastic game theory, Stackelberg model, Nash game, time-inconsistent control problem, extended Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation.
result Equilibrium reinsurance strategies and premiums found for exponential claim size.
Study optimal reinsurance for insurers with a reinsurer's default risk.
problem Optimal reinsurance for insurers with a reinsurer's default risk.
method Analytical solution for two types of reinsurance contracts.
result Joint effect of reinsurer's default and background risk on reinsurance demand.
This paper analyzes a game between insurer and reinsurer under ambiguity and risk aversion, optimizing reinsurance and investment strategies.
problem Optimizing reinsurance and investment strategies in a game between insurer and reinsurer under ambiguity and risk aversion.
method Stackelberg game, α-maxmin mean-variance criterion, Heston's stochastic volatility, Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations, Riccati differential equations. result Excess-of-loss reinsurance is optimal for the insurer, and the equilibrium strategies are determined by specific equations.
Study optimal investment-reinsurance strategies in equity-linked insurance products using Stackelberg game theory.
problem Optimizing investment and reinsurance strategies in equity-linked insurance products with capital guarantees.
method Modelled as a Stackelberg game where reinsurer acts as leader and insurer as follower, with general utility functions and power utility functions analyzed.
result Derive Stackelberg equilibrium for general utility functions and calculate it explicitly for power utility functions, finding reinsurer optimizes premium to incentivize maximal reinsurance purchase.
The paper tackles fair sharing of exploration costs across groups in online learning.
problem Sharing the cost of exploration fairly across multiple groups in online learning.
method The paper introduces the 'grouped' bandit model and uses axiomatic bargaining theory, specifically the Nash bargaining solution, to formalize fairness.
result The paper derives policies that are optimally fair and regret-optimal, showing that regret-optimal policies can be unfair.
Study optimal reinsurance pricing under model uncertainty for multiple insurers.
problem Optimal reinsurance pricing in the presence of multiple sources of model uncertainty.
method Solves a continuous-time Stackelberg game for general reinsurance contracts, considering entropy penalties and ambiguity in insurers' models.
result Reinsurer prices under a distortion of the barycentre of insurers' models, maximizing expected wealth with an entropy penalty.
Two-layer model studies reinsurance contracts and competition between insurer and reinsurers.
problem Modeling and analyzing reinsurance contracts and competition between insurer and reinsurers.
method Two-layer stochastic game model with insurer negotiating with reinsurers, and reinsurers competing for business.
result Existence and uniqueness of equilibrium strategies for the insurer and reinsurers, characterized in semiclosed form.
The paper analyzes reinsurance strategies in a competitive multi-agent system.
problem Strategic interactions and competitive behavior in multi-layer reinsurance chains.
method Stochastic differential games and non-zero-sum game models to characterize strategic interactions. Dynamic programming and game theory to derive equilibrium strategies.
result Intensified competition reduces safety loadings in reinsurance contracts.
The paper analyzes strategic interactions in a multi-agent reinsurance chain using game theory.
problem Strategic behavior and competition among insurers and reinsurers in a multi-layer reinsurance chain.
method Employed Stackelberg differential games and non-zero-sum game models to characterize strategic interactions. Used dynamic programming and game theory to derive equilibrium strategies for investment and reinsurance.
result Intensified competition leads to reduced safety loadings in reinsurance contracts.
Study on reinsurance decisions using mean-variance criterion with irreversible contracts.
problem Optimizing reinsurance premiums and contracts in a Stackelberg game with irreversible contracts.
method Unified singular control framework applied to both discrete and continuous time reinsurance contracts.
result A single once-for-all reinsurance contract is preferred over multiple contracts, and the signing time is crucial.
In this paper, we address the aggregation of dependent stop loss reinsurance risks where the dependence among the ceding insurer(s) risks is governed by the Sarmanov distribution and each individual risk belongs to the class of Erlang mixtures. We investigate the effects of the ceding insurer(s) risk dependencies on th…
NAMEx merges experts using Nash bargaining for improved performance.
problem Sparse Mixture of Experts merging strategies lack a principled weighting mechanism.
method Reinterpreting expert merging through game theory, introducing Nash Merging and complex momentum.
result NAMEx consistently outperforms competing methods across various tasks and system sizes.
Reinsurance can help life insurers maintain higher capital guarantees without losing utility.
problem Decreasing capital guarantees in life insurance products.
method Dynamic investment-reinsurance optimization problem with simultaneous Value-at-Risk and no-short-selling constraints. Introduced guarantee-equivalent utility gain for comparison.
result Optimally managed reinsurance allows insurers to offer higher capital guarantees without reducing expected utility.
This paper analyzes a hybrid reinsurance and investment game with bounded memory.
problem A hybrid stochastic differential reinsurance and investment game between reinsurer and insurers.
method Stochastic Stackelberg differential subgame and non-zero-sum stochastic differential subgame, using backward induction and dynamic programming.
result Derive equilibrium strategy and value functions explicitly, showing how delay and competition affect strategies.
Study optimal reinsurance and investment to minimize drawdown risk.
problem Minimizing drawdown risk in a risk model with correlated insurance claims.
method Optimal reinsurance-investment strategy under expected value and variance premium principles, considering per-loss reinsurance and financial market investment.
result Closed-form expressions for optimal reinsurance-investment strategies and value functions.
In this paper, we study an insurer's reinsurance-investment problem under a mean-variance criterion. We show that excess-loss is the unique equilibrium reinsurance strategy under a spectrally negative Lévy insurance model when the reinsurance premium is computed according to the expected value premium principle. Furthe…
A new insurance and reinsurance pricing scheme based on realized loss.
problem Determining fair and risk-adjusted insurance premiums.
method Performance-based variable premium scheme with random initial premium adjusted based on realized loss.
result The variable premium scheme reduces reinsurer's total risk exposure compared to expected-value premium.
Our work extends Coase's theorem to settings with uncertainty, showing how to maximize social welfare through property rights and learning.
problem Theoretical models of externality often assume perfect knowledge, limiting practical solutions.
method We extend Coase's theorem to a two-player bandit setting with uncertainty, designing a learning policy to maximize social welfare.
result We show that property rights and learning can recover Coase's theorem in settings with uncertainty.
The paper analyzes reinsurance strategies in peer-to-peer insurance schemes.
problem Strategic interaction between plan managers and reinsurers in P2P insurance.
method Develops two game-theoretic contract designs: Pareto and Bowley designs, deriving optimal contracts and analyzing their welfare effects.
result The Bowley design yields a unique optimal contract, while the Pareto design allows for multiple Pareto-optimal contracts.
Optimal dividend strategy with irreversible reinsurance constraints.
problem Maximizing dividends while adhering to ratcheting and irreversible reinsurance constraints.
method Modeling dividend and reinsurance levels as nondecreasing processes, solving Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation.
result Threshold strategy is optimal for maximizing discounted dividends until ruin.
We propose a projected gradient dynamical system as a model for a bargaining scheme for an asset for which the two interested agents have personal valuations which do not initially coincide. The personal valuations are formed using subjective beliefs concerning the future states of the world and the reservation prices …
The paper studies value adjustments and dynamic hedging for reinsurance counterparty risk.
problem Reinsurance counterparty credit risk (RCCR) and its impact on insurance companies.
method A novel model accounting for contagion effects, characterized value adjustment via PIDE, derived hedging strategies using quadratic method.
result Dynamic hedging strategies can significantly reduce reinsurance counterparty risk.
A usual reinsurance policy for insurance companies admits one or two layers of the payment deductions. Under optimal criterion of minimizing the conditional tail expectation (CTE) risk measure of the insurer's total risk, this article generalized an optimal stop-loss reinsurance policy to an optimal multi-layer reinsur…
Dynamic reinsurance minimizes insurer's cost of capital over time.
problem Minimizing insurer's cost of capital in a dynamic reinsurance setting.
method Dynamic extension of the static optimal reinsurance problem, viewed as a risk-sensitive Markov Decision Process.
result Existence of a stationary Markovian optimal reinsurance policy under an infinite planning horizon.
Modeling reinsurance market, we find subgame perfect Nash equilibria.
problem Optimizing reinsurance market with multiple insurers and reinsurers.
method Sequential game with Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibria analysis.
result Characterized subgame perfect Nash equilibria in some market cases.
This paper optimizes reinsurance contracts with belief differences between insurer and reinsurer.
problem Dynamic reinsurance design with heterogeneous beliefs under mean-variance framework.
method Modeling surplus process, applying partitioned domain optimization, solving HJB system.
result Optimal reinsurance contracts with belief heterogeneity are more complex than standard contracts.
In this paper we consider reinsurance or risk sharing from a macroeconomic point of view. Our aim is to find socially optimal reinsurance treaties. In our setting we assume that there are n insurance companies each bearing a certain risk and one representative reinsurer. The optimization problem is to minimize the su…
Optimal reinsurance contracts designed for a continuum of risk types.
problem Designing optimal reinsurance contracts with a continuum of risk types.
method Principal-agent model, VaR at risk tolerance level, change of variables, univariate approach.
result Optimal reinsurance contracts are in stop-loss form, classifying agents into high and low risk groups.
Optimizes reinsurance and investment strategies to minimize ruin probability.
problem Optimizing reinsurance and investment strategies to minimize ruin probability.
method Stochastic projected gradient method based on Malliavin calculus.
result Effectiveness of the proposed method demonstrated through numerical experiments.
Optimizes investment and reinsurance strategies with unknown parameters.
problem Optimal investment and reinsurance with partially unknown model parameters.
method Robust approach using generalized HJB equation and Clarke gradients.
result Explicit optimal investment strategy and bounds for optimal reinsurance.
Study optimal reinsurance contracts to prevent moral hazard under non-concave premium principles.
problem Preventing moral hazard in reinsurance contracts under non-concave premium principles.
method Develops optimal reinsurance contracts under a diffusion risk model with incentive compatibility constraints and extended distortion premium principles.
result An optimal reinsurance contract exists and is characterized by solving a double obstacle problem.
Optimal reinsurance strategy with fixed cost and exponential preferences.
problem Maximizing expected utility of terminal wealth with fixed reinsurance cost.
method Two-step procedure: stochastic control and optimal stopping problem.
result Deterministic optimal strategy depends on model parameters.
The article improves the display of acceptable exchange ratios for merging companies.
problem Determining feasible exchange ratios for merging companies.
method Exploits a diagrammatic approach to display the bargaining region.
result Shares face upper and lower bounds for acceptable exchange ratios.
We consider a risk model where deficits after ruin are covered by a new type of reinsurance contract that provides capital injections. To allow the insurance company's survival after ruin, the reinsurer injects capital only at ruin times caused by jumps larger than a chosen retention level. Otherwise capital must be ra…
In this paper, we consider the problem of optimal reinsurance design, when the risk is measured by a distortion risk measure and the premium is given by a distortion risk premium. First, we show how the optimal reinsurance design for the ceding company, the reinsurance company and the social planner can be formulated i…
Study of insurer games with model uncertainty in reinsurance and investment strategies.
problem Model uncertainty and competitive insurers' performance under worst-case scenarios.
method Formulated robust mean-field game for non-linear system, derived closed-form solutions.
result Relative concerns lead to new hedging terms in investment and reinsurance strategies.
Optimal reinsurance strategies for multi-line insurance companies.
problem Choosing the best dynamic reinsurance policies for multi-line insurance companies.
method Characterized the optimal survival function as the unique nondecreasing viscosity solution of the HJB equation, solved numerically using the finite difference method.
result Provided proof of convergence of numerical solution to the survival probability function.
In this paper, we study two classes of optimal reinsurance models from perspectives of both insurers and reinsurers by minimizing their convex combination where the risk is measured by a distortion risk measure and the premium is given by a distortion premium principle. Firstly, we show that how optimal reinsurance mod…
Endogenous reinsurance pricing in large insurance markets
problem Endogenous reinsurance pricing in large insurance markets
method Stackelberg leader and insurer equilibrium analysis
result Characterization of insurers' equilibrium retention and Stackelberg equilibria
The paper values reinsurance contracts for dynamic catastrophe claims without arbitrage.
problem Valuation of reinsurance contracts for dynamic catastrophe claims without arbitrage.
method Compound dynamic contagion process, Esscher transform, Monte Carlo simulation.
result Arbitrage-free premiums for catastrophe stop-loss reinsurance contracts.
Optimal reinsurance contracts for multiple dependent risks are derived without specific dependency assumptions.
problem Finding optimal reinsurance contracts for multiple dependent risks without assuming their dependency structure.
method Assumes maximal expected utility criterion and independent negotiation of reinsurance for each risk. Derives optimality conditions and shows that under mild assumptions, optimal contracts are classical (non-randomized) type.
result Optimal reinsurance contracts exist and can be classical (non-randomized) type under mild assumptions.
Optimal reinsurance balances risk over surplus ratios for risk-adjusted surplus.
problem Balancing risk over surplus ratios in reinsurance contracts.
method Analyzes reinsurance contracts using Value at Risk and expected surplus ratio, derives simplifications for large portfolios, and considers approximations of the optimum portfolio.
result One or two-layer contracts are optimal for both risk-adjusted surplus and risk over expected surplus ratio, but no second layer for large portfolios or below certain reinsurance prices.
The paper optimizes insurance strategies for two collaborating business lines.
problem Maximizing dividends and managing risk for two collaborating business lines.
method Closed-form solutions for optimal strategies, including dividend payout, reinsurance, and capital injection.
result Optimal strategies involve pure excess-of-loss reinsurance and transferring reserves to prevent ruin.