Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/258049 
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2020
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[Journal:] Risks [ISSN:] 2227-9091 [Volume:] 8 [Issue:] 3 [Article No.:] 96 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 1-27
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MDPI, Basel
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We consider optimal dividend payment under the constraint that the with-dividend ruin probability does not exceed a given value ». This is done in most simple discrete De Finetti models. We characterize the value function V(s,») for initial surplus s of this problem, characterize the corresponding optimal dividend strategies, and present an algorithm for its computation. In an earlier solution to this problem, a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for V(s,») can be found which leads to its representation as the limit of a monotone iteration scheme. However, this scheme is too complex for numerical computations. Here, we introduce the class of two-barrier dividend strategies with the following property: when dividends are paid above a barrier B, i.e., a dividend of size 1 is paid when reaching B+1 from B, then we repeat this dividend payment until reaching a limit L for some 0ÈLÈB. For these strategies we obtain explicit formulas for ruin probabilities and present values of dividend payments, as well as simplifications of the above iteration scheme. The results of numerical experiments show that the values V(s,») obtained in earlier work can be improved, they are suboptimal.
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stochastic control
optimal dividend payment
ruin probability constraint
De Finetti model
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