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A note on large deviations in life insurance

Probability 2020-09-04 v1 Risk Management

Abstract

We study large and moderate deviations for a life insurance portfolio, without assuming identically distributed losses. The crucial assumption is that losses are bounded, and that variances are bounded below. From a standard large deviations upper bound, we get an exponential bound for the probability of the average loss exceeding a threshold. A counterexample shows that a full large deviation principle does not follow from our assumptions.

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@article{arxiv.2009.01644,
  title  = {A note on large deviations in life insurance},
  author = {Stefan Gerhold},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.01644},
  year   = {2020}
}
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