Perpetuities with thin tails revisited
Abstract
We consider the tail behavior of random variables which are solutions of the distributional equation , where is independent of and . Goldie and Gr\"{u}bel showed that the tails of are no heavier than exponential and that if is bounded and resembles near 1 the uniform distribution, then the tails of are Poissonian. In this paper, we further investigate the connection between the tails of and the behavior of near 1. We focus on the special case when is constant and is nonnegative.
Cite
@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