With the assumption of Archimedean copula for the occurrence frequencies of the risks covered by an insurance policy, this note further investigates the allocation problem of upper limits and deductibles addressed in Hua and Cheung (2008a). Sufficient conditions for a risk averse policyholder to...

For heterogeneous Weibull samples with a common shape parameter and weakly majorized scale parameters, we study the likelihood ratio order and the stochastic order between minimums of independent and dependent samples, respectively. Also, an application in fabric strength is presented.