In a bonus-malus system in car insurance, the bonus class of a customer is updated from one year to the next as a function of the current class and the number of claims in the year (assumed Poisson). Thus the sequence of classes of a customer in consecutive years forms a Markov chain, and most...

Two-sided reflected Markov-modulated Brownian motion with applications to fluid queues and dividend payouts

In this paper we consider the first passage process of a spectrally negative Markov additive process (MAP). The law of this process is uniquely characterized by a certain matrix function, which plays a crucial role in fluctuation theory. We show how to identify this matrix using the theory of...

In this paper we consider the two-sided reflection of a Markov modulated Brownian motion by analyzing the spectral properties of the matrix polynomial associated with the generator of the free process. We show how to compute for the general case the Laplace transform of the stationary...

For certain subordinators (Xt)t≥0 it is shown that the process (−tlogXts)s0 tends to an extremal process (η̂s)s0 in the sense of convergence of the finite dimensional distributions. Additionally it is also shown that (z∧(−tlogXts))s≥0 converges weakly to (z∧η̂s)s≥0 in D[0,∞),...