Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
On Merton’s problem for life insurers |
| Authors: |
Mogens Steffensen |
| Contributors: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Superior Title: |
http://www.act.ku.dk/wop/2002/wop183.pdf. |
| Publication Year: |
2004 |
| Collection: |
CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: |
Markov chain, Dividends and bonus, Power utility, Bellman equation, Durable goods |
| Description: |
This paper deals with optimal investment and redistribution of the free reserves connected to life and pension insurance contracts in form of dividends and bonus. Formulated appropriately this problem can be viewed as a modification of Merton’s problem of optimal consumption and investment with a very particular form of consumption and utility hereof. Both are linked to a finite state Markov chain. We distinguish between utility optimization of dividends, where an (almost) explicit result is obtained, and utility optimization of bonus payments. The latter connects to the financial notion of durable goods and allows for an explicit solution only in very special cases. |
| Document Type: |
text |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.200.57; http://www.act.ku.dk/wop/2002/wop183.pdf |
| Availability: |
http://www.act.ku.dk/wop/2002/wop183.pdf |
| Rights: |
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.3C116F50 |
| Database: |
BASE |
