A Financially Balanced Bonus/Malus System

Abstract
The premiums for a bonus-malus system which stays in financial equilibrium over the yeats are calculated This is done by minimalizing a quadratic function of the difference between the premium for an optimal BMS with an infinite number of classes and the premium for a BMS with a finite number of classes, weighted by the stationary probability of being in a certain class, and by transposing various constraints on the system,
Volume
26:1
Page
107-116
Year
1996
Categories
Actuarial Applications and Methodologies
Ratemaking
Experience Rating
Publications
ASTIN Bulletin
Authors
Geert Coene
Louis G Doray