We study the asymptotic behavior of the Gerber-Shiu expected discounted penalty function in the renewal risk model. Under the assumption that the claim-size distribution has a convolution-equivalent density function, which allows both heavy-tailed and light-tailed cases, we establish some...

Although it had a a lower income level than India in 1980, China's 2006 per capita gross domestic product stands more than twice that of India's. This paper investigates the role of the business environment in explaining China's productivity advantage using recent firm-level survey data. The...

In this article, we show, in the context of partial hedging, that some important relationships about comonotonicity and convex order cannot be translated to counter-monotonicity in general because of the possibility of over-hedging. We propose a new notion called proper hedge that can e...