Abstract:
In two papers: Dhaene et al. (2002). Insurance: Mathematics and
Economics 31, pp.3-33 and pp. 133-161, the approximation for sums
of random variables (rv’s) was derived for the case where the distribution of the components is lognormal and known, but the stochastic
dependence structure is unknown or too cumbersome to work with.
In finance and actuarial science a lot of attention is paid to a regime
switching model. In this paper we give the approximation for sums
under a mixture of normals and consider approximate evaluation of
provision under switching regime.
Keywords:Convex stochastic order, bounds for provision, regime
switching model.