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The classical risk model

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Aspects of Risk Theory

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The traditional approach in the collective risk theory is to consider a model of the risk business of an insurance company, and to study the probability of ruin, i.e., the probability that the risk business ever will be below some specified (negative) value.

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Grandell, J. (1991). The classical risk model. In: Aspects of Risk Theory. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9058-9_1

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