In this paper we introduce a generalization of the De Vylder approximation. Our idea is to approximate the ruin probability with the one for a different process with gamma claims, matching first four moments. We compare the two approximations studying mixture of exponentials and lognormal...

It is common practice in most insurance lines for the coverage to be restricted by a deductible. In the paper we investigate the influence of deductibles on pure risk premiums. We derive simple but practical formulae for premiums under franchise, fix amount, proportional, limited proportional...

In the article we consider accumulated values of annuities-certain with yearly payments with independent random interest rates. We focus on general annuities with payments varying in arithmetic and geometric progression which are important basic varying annuities (see Kellison, 1991). They are...

In this paper we establish the uniqueness of the Lamperti transformation leading from self-similar to stationary processes, and conversely. We discuss alpha-stable processes, which allow to understand better the difference between the Gaussian and non-Gaussian cases. As a by-product we get a...

CONTENTS: 1.Introduction; 2.Financial market; 3.Securities; 4.Forwards, futures and options; 5.Financial mathematics of discrete models; 6.Financial mathematics of continuous models; 7.Term structure modeling; 8.Construction and pricing of exotic derivatives; 9.Statistics of financial markets;...

CONTENTS: Preliminary remarks; Brownian motion, poisson process, alpha-stable Levy motion; Computer simulation of alpha-stable random variables; Stochastic integration; Spectral representations of stationary processes; Computer approximations of continuous time processes; Examples of...

CONTENTS: 1.Introduction; 2.Financial market; 3.Electricity market; 4.Power exchange; 5.Forwards, futures and options; 6.Risk management; 7.Software (SPIS TRESCI: 1.Wprowadzenie; 2.Rynek finansowy; 3.Rynek energii elektrycznej; 4.Gielda energii elektrycznej; 5.Kontrakty terminowe; 6.Zarzadzanie...

The purpose of this paper is to show that using the toolkit of interest rate theory, already well known in financial engineering as the HJM model [D. Heath, R. Jarrow, A. Morton, Econometrica 60, 77 (1992)], it is possible to derive explicite option pricing formula and calibrate the theoretical...

In this paper we apply a new approach to build bidding strategies for power suppliers on electricity market and assume that each supplier’s bid is a linear function. Moreover each supplier tends to maximise his profit and minimize his risk, which are dependent on the generation output,...

In this paper we consider a jump-diffusion type approximation of the classical risk process by a gamma Levy process. We derive here the asymptotic behavior (lower and upper bounds) of the finite time ruin probability for any gamma Levy process.