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arxiv: 1601.03171 · v1 · pith:Z3JETTPGnew · submitted 2016-01-13 · 💱 q-fin.RM

On a law of large numbers for insurance risks

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keywords largeinsurancenumbersriskrisksaccumulationallocationcatastrophic
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This note presents a kind of the strong law of large numbers for an insurance risk caused by a single catastrophic event rather than by an accumulation of independent and identically distributed risks. We derive this result by a large diversification effect resulting from optimal allocation of the risk to many reinsurers or investors.

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