Not available in 2023/24
ST448 Half Unit
Insurance Risk
This information is for the 2023/24 session.
Teacher responsible
Daniela Escobar
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in Financial Mathematics, MSc in Quantitative Methods for Risk Management, MSc in Statistics (Financial Statistics) and MSc in Statistics (Financial Statistics) (Research). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
The course is available with permission when students meet requirement on pre-requisities.
Pre-requisites
Students must have completed Stochastic Processes (ST302) and Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference (ST202).
Good undergraduate understanding of distribution theory and stochastic processes. ST202, ST302 or their equivalent.
Course content
A self-contained introduction to insurance risk analysis. Starting from classical actuarial modelling of insurance risk, utility theory with optimal forms of insurance from the insured's and from the insurer's point of view are analysed. Pareto-optimal risk exchanges are introduced. Standard schemes of reinsurance are introduced and analysed. The individual and collective model are introduced to understand the aggregated claim process and approximate it. There is an emphasis in the compound Poisson process and therefore a detailed description of the Poisson process is explained. In the second part of the course we cover Ruin theory for an insurance company and capital requirement are studied. Heavy tail distributions and the extreme value theory are introduced. We solve reinsurance problems in a scheme with aggregated claims. Finally, we study closed-form solutions of the ruin probability as we also approximate it using R.
Teaching
20 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the AT.
Week 6 will be used as a reading week.
Formative coursework
Students will be expected to produce 6 problem sets in the AT.
Indicative reading
Kaas, R., Goovaerts, M., Dhaene, J., & Denuit, M. Modern actuarial risk theory: using R
Thomas Mikosch, Non-Life Insurance Mathematics
Ragnar Norberg, Non-life Insurance Mathematics (Lecture notes)
Pauline Barrieu, Luca Albertini, The Handbook of Insurance-Linked Securities
Assessment
Exam (70%, duration: 2 hours) in the spring exam period.
Project (30%) in the WT.
Key facts
Department: Statistics
Total students 2022/23: Unavailable
Average class size 2022/23: Unavailable
Controlled access 2022/23: No
Value: Half Unit
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Personal development skills
- Team working
- Problem solving
- Application of numeracy skills
- Commercial awareness