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Tail expansions for the distribution of the maximum of a random walk with negative drift and regularly varying increments

Probability 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Let F be a distribution function with negative mean and regularly varying right tail. Under a mild smoothness condition we derive higher order asymptotic expansions for the tail distribution of the maxima of the random walk generated by F. An application to ruin probabilities is developed.

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@article{arxiv.math/0604377,
  title  = {Tail expansions for the distribution of the maximum of a random walk with negative drift and regularly varying increments},
  author = {Ph . Barbe and W. P. McCormick and C. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0604377},
  year   = {2007}
}

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16 pages