# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

November  2020, 16(6): 2781-2797. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2019080

## Optimal investment and reinsurance with premium control

 1 Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong 2 College of Mathematics and Informatics & FJKLMAA, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China

* Corresponding author: Mi Chen

Received  October 2018 Revised  March 2019 Published  July 2019

Fund Project: The research of Xin Jiang and Kam Chuen Yuen was supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. HKU17329216). The research of Mi Chen was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11701087 and 11701088), Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (Nos. 2018J05003, 2019J01673 and JAT160130), Program for Innovative Research Team in Science and Technology in Fujian Province University, and the grant "Probability and Statistics: Theory and Application (No. IRTL1704)" from Fujian Normal University

This paper studies the optimal investment and reinsurance problem for a risk model with premium control. It is assumed that the insurance safety loading and the time-varying claim arrival rate are connected through a monotone decreasing function, and that the insurance and reinsurance safety loadings have a linear relationship. Applying stochastic control theory, we are able to derive the optimal strategy that maximizes the expected exponential utility of terminal wealth. We also provide a few numerical examples to illustrate the impact of the model parameters on the optimal strategy.

Citation: Xin Jiang, Kam Chuen Yuen, Mi Chen. Optimal investment and reinsurance with premium control. Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, 2020, 16 (6) : 2781-2797. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2019080
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##### References:
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