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Perpetuities with thin tails revisited

Probability 2010-02-08 v3

Abstract

We consider the tail behavior of random variables RR which are solutions of the distributional equation R=dQ+MRR\stackrel{d}{=}Q+MR, where (Q,M)(Q,M) is independent of RR and M1|M|\le 1. Goldie and Gr\"{u}bel showed that the tails of RR are no heavier than exponential and that if QQ is bounded and MM resembles near 1 the uniform distribution, then the tails of RR are Poissonian. In this paper, we further investigate the connection between the tails of RR and the behavior of MM near 1. We focus on the special case when QQ is constant and MM is nonnegative.

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@article{arxiv.0912.1694,
  title  = {Perpetuities with thin tails revisited},
  author = {Paweł Hitczenko and Jacek Wesołowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.1694},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AAP603 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org). This version corrects formula (6.1) in the statement of Theorem 6 in published version