Stochastic Loss Reserving with the Collective Risk Model
By Glenn G. Meyers
Abstract
This paper presents a Bayesian stochastic loss reserve model with the following features:
1. The model for expected loss payments depends upon
unknown parameters that determine the expected loss
ratio for each accident year and the expected payment
for each settlement lag.
2. The distribution of outcomes is given by the collective
risk model in which the expected claim severity
increases with the settlement lag. The claim count distribution is given by a Poisson distribution with its mean determined by dividing the expected loss by the expected claim severity.
3. The parameter sets that describe the posterior distribution
of the parameters in (1) above are calculated with
the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm.
4. For each parameter set generated by the Metropolis-
Hastings algorithm in (3), the predicted distribution of
outcomes is calculated using a Fast Fourier Transform
(FFT). The Bayesian predictive distribution of outcomes
is a mixture of the distributions of outcomes over all
the parameter sets produced by the Metropolis-Hastings
algorithm.
KEYWORDS: Reserving methods, reserve variability, uncertainty and ranges, collective risk model, Fourier methods, Bayesian estimation
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Citation
Meyers, Glenn G., "Stochastic Loss Reserving with the Collective Risk Model," Variance 3:2, 2009, pp. 239-269.Taxonomy Classifications
- Financial and Statistical Methods > Statistical Models and Methods > Bayesian Methods
- Financial and Statistical Methods > Aggregation Methods > Collective Risk Model
- Financial and Statistical Methods > Aggregation Methods > Fourier
- Actuarial Applications and Methodologies > Reserving > Reserve Variability
- Actuarial Applications and Methodologies > Reserving > Reserving Methods
- Actuarial Applications and Methodologies > Reserving > Uncertainty and Ranges