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Polynomial Diffusion Models for Life Insurance Liabilities

Mathematical Finance 2016-09-26 v4

Abstract

In this paper we study the pricing and hedging problem of a portfolio of life insurance products under the benchmark approach, where the reference market is modelled as driven by a state variable following a polynomial diffusion on a compact state space. Such a model guarantees not only the positivity of the OIS short rate and the mortality intensity, but also the possibility of approximating both pricing formula and hedging strategy of a large class of life insurance products by explicit formulas.

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@article{arxiv.1602.07910,
  title  = {Polynomial Diffusion Models for Life Insurance Liabilities},
  author = {Francesca Biagini and Yinglin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.07910},
  year   = {2016}
}
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