• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Stackelberg equilibrium premium strategies for push-pull competition in a non-life insurance market with product differentiation
  • Contributor: Asmussen, Søren [Author]; Christensen, Bent Jesper [Author]; Thøgersen, Julie [Author]
  • imprint: Basel: MDPI, 2019
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/risks7020049
  • ISSN: 2227-9091
  • Keywords: Stackelberg equilibrium ; Adverse selection ; Product differentiation ; Stochastic differential game
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  • Description: Two insurance companies I 1 ,I 2 with reserves R 1 (t),R 2 (t) compete for customers, such that in a suitable differential game the smaller company I 2 with R 2 (0)<R 1 (0) aims at minimizing R 1 (t)&#x2212;R 2 (t) by using the premium p 2 as control and the larger I 1 at maximizing by using p 1. Deductibles K 1 ,K 2 are fixed but may be different. If K 1 >K 2 and I 2 is the leader choosing its premium first, conditions for Stackelberg equilibrium are established. For gamma-distributed rates of claim arrivals, explicit equilibrium premiums are obtained, and shown to depend on the running reserve difference. The analysis is based on the diffusion approximation to a standard Cramér-Lundberg risk process extended to allow investment in a risk-free asset.
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution (CC BY)