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This paper considers the dividend optimization problem for an insurance company under the consideration of internal competition between different units inside the company. The objective is to find a reinsurance policy and a dividend payment scheme so as to maximize the expected discounted value of the dividend payment, and the expected present value of an amount which the insurer earns until the time of ruin. By solving the corresponding constrained Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, we obtain the value function and the optimal reinsurance policy and dividend payment.
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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.10971157) and the Natural Science Foundation of Xinjiang University (No. BS100102).
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Liu, W., Hu, Yj. The optimal policy for insurance company under consideration of internal competition and the time value of ruin. Acta Math. Appl. Sin. Engl. Ser. 30, 807–818 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10255-014-0422-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10255-014-0422-8