Alai, Daniel H.; Landsman, Zinoviy; Sherris, Michael - In: Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 52 (2013) 3, pp. 542-549
Systematic improvements in mortality increases dependence in the survival distributions of insured lives, which is not … portfolios. This paper applies a multivariate gamma distribution to incorporate dependence. Lifetimes are modelled using a … truncated multivariate gamma distribution that induces dependence through a shared gamma distributed component. Model parameter …