## The Annals of Applied Probability

### Ruin probabilities and overshoots for general Lévy insurance risk processes

#### Abstract

We formulate the insurance risk process in a general Lévy process setting, and give general theorems for the ruin probability and the asymptotic distribution of the overshoot of the process above a high level, when the process drifts to −∞ a.s. and the positive tail of the Lévy measure, or of the ladder height measure, is subexponential or, more generally, convolution equivalent. Results of Asmussen and Klüppelberg [Stochastic Process. Appl. 64 (1996) 103–125] and Bertoin and Doney [Adv. in Appl. Probab. 28 (1996) 207–226] for ruin probabilities and the overshoot in random walk and compound Poisson models are shown to have analogues in the general setup. The identities we derive open the way to further investigation of general renewal-type properties of Lévy processes.

#### Article information

Source
Ann. Appl. Probab., Volume 14, Number 4 (2004), 1766-1801.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 5 November 2004

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1099674077

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/105051604000000927

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2099651

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1066.60049

#### Citation

Klüppelberg, Claudia; Kyprianou, Andreas E.; Maller, Ross A. Ruin probabilities and overshoots for general Lévy insurance risk processes. Ann. Appl. Probab. 14 (2004), no. 4, 1766--1801. doi:10.1214/105051604000000927. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1099674077

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