MATS280 Risk Theory (5 cr)
Study level:
Advanced studies
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English, Finnish
Responsible organisation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Curriculum periods:
2024-2025, 2025-2026, 2026-2027, 2027-2028
Description
Stochastic modeling of non-live insurance: Poisson process, risk process, ruin probabilities, Cramer-Lundberg bounds,
heavy and light tails of claim size distributions.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the participant knows
- how to model the basic risk of an insurance company,
- how to compute and estimate ruin probabilities,
- the difference in between modelling small and frequent risks (light tails) and big and rare risks (heavy tails).
Description of prerequisites
MATA280 Foundations of stochastics.
Study materials
Lecture Notes: C. Geiss and S. Geiss. Non-life insurance mathematics.
T. Mikosch. Non-Life Insurance Mathematics. Springer 2006.
T. Mikosch. Non-Life Insurance Mathematics. Springer 2006.
Completion methods
Method 1
Evaluation criteria:
The grade of the course is determined by the points aquired in the exam and in the exercises.
Time of teaching:
Period 1
Select all marked parts
Method 2
Evaluation criteria:
The grade of the course is determined by the points aquired in the exam.
Select all marked parts
Parts of the completion methods
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Teaching (5 cr)
Type:
Participation in teaching
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English
Teaching
9/2–10/27/2024 Lectures
10/23–10/23/2024 Course Exam
11/15–11/15/2024 Course Exam
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Exam (5 cr)
Type:
Exam
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English