Loss Rates for Lévy Processes with Two Reflecting Barriers

  • Authors:
  • Søren Asmussen;Mats Pihlsgård

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Theoretical Statistics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark;Codan Insurance, Gammel Kongevej 60, 1790 København V, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We consider a Lévy process that is reflected at 0 and at K K to the sum of the feeding Lévy process and an initial condition. We define the loss rate to be the expectation of the local time at K at time 1 under stationary conditions. The main result of the paper is the identification of the loss rate in terms of the stationary measure of the reflected process and the characteristic triplet of the Lévy process. We also derive asymptotics of the loss rate as K ← ∞ when the drift of the feeding process is negative and the Lévy measure is light tailed. Finally, we extend the results for Lévy processes to hold for Markov-modulated Lévy processes.