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On the ruin time distribution for a Sparre Andersen process with exponential claim sizes

Probability 2007-09-07 v1

Abstract

We derive a closed-form (infinite series) representation for the distribution of the ruin time for the Sparre Andersen model with exponentially distributed claims. This extends a recent result of Dickson et al. (2005) for such processes with Erlang inter-claim times. We illustrate our result in the cases of gamma and mixed exponential inter-claim time distributions.

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@article{arxiv.0709.0764,
  title  = {On the ruin time distribution for a Sparre Andersen process with exponential claim sizes},
  author = {K. A. Borovkov and D. C. M. Dickson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.0764},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures

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