Table Of ContentMarco Corazza
Claudio Pizzi
MathematicalandStatisticalMethodsforActuarialSciencesandFinance
Marco Corazza (Editor)
Claudio Pizzi (Editor)
Mathematical and
Statistical Methods
for Actuarial Sciences
and Finance
MarcoCorazza ClaudioPizzi
DepartmentofAppliedMathematics DepartmentofStatistics
UniversityCa’Foscari Venice UniversityCa’Foscari Venice
Venice,Italy Venice,Italy
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Preface
This volume collects a selection of refereed papers of the more than one hundred
presentedattheInternationalConferenceMAF2008–MathematicalandStatistical
MethodsforActuarialSciencesandFinance.
The conference was organisedby theDepartment of AppliedMathematics and
theDepartmentofStatisticsoftheUniversityCa’FoscariVenice(Italy),withthecol-
laborationoftheDepartmentofEconomicsandStatisticalSciencesoftheUniversity
ofSalerno(Italy).ItwasheldinVenice,fromMarch26to28,2008,attheprestigious
CavalliFranchettipalace,alongGrandCanal,oftheIstitutoVenetodiScienze,Lettere
edArti.
This conference was the first international editionof a biennial national series
begunin2004,whichwasbornofthebrilliantbeliefofthecolleagues–andfriends–
oftheDepartmentofEconomicsandStatisticalSciencesoftheUniversityofSalerno:
theidea followingwhichthecooperationbetween mathematicians and statisticians
inworkinginactuarialsciences,ininsuranceandinfinancecanimproveresearchon
these topics.The proofofthisconsistsinthe wideparticipationinthese events. In
particular,withreferencetothe2008internationaledition:
– Morethan150attendants,bothacademiciansandpractitioners;
– Morethan100acceptedcommunications,organisedin26parallelsessions,from
authorscomingfromabouttwentycountries(namely:Canada,Colombia,Czech
Republic,France,Germany,GreatBritain,Greece,Hungary,Ireland,Israel,Italy,
Japan,Poland,Spain,Sweden,Switzerland,Taiwan,USA);
– twoplenaryguest-organisedsessions;and
– aprestigiouskeynotelecturedeliveredbyProfessorWolfgangHa¨rdleoftheHum-
boldtUniversityofBerlin(Germany).
Thepaperspublishedinthisvolumecoverawidevarietyofsubjects:actuarialmod-
els; ARCH and GARCH modelling;artificial neural networks in finance; copulæ;
corporate finance; demographic risk; energy markets; insurance and reinsurance;
interest rate risk; longevity risk; Monte Carlo approaches; mutual fund analysis;
non-parametrictesting;optionpricingmodels;ordinalmodels;probabilitydistribu-
tionsandstochasticprocessesinfinance;riskmeasures;robustestimationinfinance;
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solvency analysis; static and dynamic portfoliomanagement; time series analysis;
volatilitytermstructure;andtradingsystems.
Ofcourse,thefavourableoutcomeofthisconferencewouldnothavebeenpossible
without the precious help of our sponsors (in alphabetical order): Banca d’Italia;
Casino` Municipale di Venezia; Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia; Istituto Veneto di
Scienze, Lettere ed Arti; Provincia diVenezia; and VENIS – Venezia Informaticae
Sistemi.Wetrulythankthemall.
Moreover,wealsoexpressourgratitudetothemembersoftheScientificandthe
OrganisingCommittees,andtoallthepeoplewhosecollaborationcontributedtothe
successoftheMAF2008conference.
Finally, we would like to report that the organization of the next conference
has already begun: the MAF 2010 conference will be held in Ravello (Italy), on
the Amalfitan Coast, from April 7 to 9, 2010 (for more details visit the website
http://maf2010.unisa.it/).Weanticipateyourattendance.
Venezia,August2009 MarcoCorazzaandClaudioPizzi
Contents
ImpactofinterestrateriskontheSpanishbankingsector
LauraBallester,Roma´nFerrer, andCristo´balGonza´lez................... 1
Trackingerrorwithminimumguaranteeconstraints
DianaBarroandElioCanestrelli..................................... 13
Energymarkets:crucialrelationshipbetweenprices
CristinaBencivenga,GiuliaSargenti,andRitaL.D’Ecclesia .............. 23
Temperedstabledistributionsandprocessesinfinance:
numericalanalysis
MicheleLeonardoBianchi,SvetlozarT.Rachev, YoungShinKim,
andFrankJ.Fabozzi............................................... 33
Transformationkernelestimationofinsuranceclaimcostdistributions
CatalinaBolance´,MontserratGuille´n,andJensPerchNielsen ............. 43
Whatdodistortionriskmeasures tellus onexcess oflossreinsurance
withreinstatements?
AntonellaCampanaandPaolaFerretti ................................ 53
Someclassesofmultivariateriskmeasures
MartaCardinandElisaPagani ...................................... 63
Assessingriskperceptionbymeansofordinalmodels
PaolaCerchiello,MariaIannario,andDomenicoPiccolo ................. 75
Afinancialanalysisofsurplusdynamicsfordeferred lifeschemes
RosaCocozza,EmiliaDiLorenzo,AlbinaOrlando,andMarilenaSibillo..... 85
CheckingfinancialmarketsviaBenford’slaw:theS&P500case
MarcoCorazza,AndreaElleroandAlbertoZorzi ........................ 93
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EmpiricallikelihoodbasednonparametrictestingforCAPM
PietroCorettoandMariaLuciaParrella............................... 103
Lee-Carter error matrixsimulation:heteroschedasticity impact on
actuarialvaluations
ValeriaD’AmatoandMariaRussolillo ................................ 113
Estimatingthevolatilitytermstructure
AntonioD´ıaz,FranciscoJaren˜o,andEliseoNavarro ..................... 123
Exact and approximated option pricing in a stochastic volatility
jump-diffusionmodel
FernandaD’Ippoliti,EnricoMoretto,SaraPasquali,andBarbaraTrivellato.. 133
AskewedGARCH-typemodelformultivariatefinancialtimeseries
CinziaFranceschiniandNicolaLoperfido.............................. 143
Financialtimeseriesandneuralnetworksinaminoritygamecontext
LucaGrilli,MassimoAlfonsoRusso,andAngeloSfrecola ................. 153
Robustestimationofstyleanalysiscoefficients
MicheleLaRoccaandDomenicoVistocco ............................. 163
Managingdemographicriskinenhancedpensions
SusannaLevantesiandMassimilianoMenzietti.......................... 173
Clusteringmutualfundsbyreturnandrisklevels
FrancescoLisiandEdoardoOtranto.................................. 183
MultivariateVarianceGammaandGaussiandependence:
astudywithcopulas
ElisaLucianoandPatriziaSemeraro.................................. 193
A simple dimension reduction procedure for corporate finance
compositeindicators
MarcoMarozziandLuigiSantamaria ................................. 205
Therelationbetween impliedandrealisedvolatilityintheDAXindex
optionsmarket
SilviaMuzzioli ................................................... 215
Binomialalgorithmsfortheevaluationofoptionsonstockswithfixedper
sharedividends
MartinaNardonandPaoloPianca ................................... 225
Nonparametricpredictionintimeseriesanalysis:someempiricalresults
MarcellaNiglioandCiraPerna...................................... 235
Contents IX
Onefficient optimisationoftheCVaRandrelatedLPcomputablerisk
measuresforportfolioselection
WłodzimierzOgryczakandTomaszS´liwin´ski ........................... 245
Apatternrecognitionalgorithmforoptimalprofitsincurrencytrading
DaniloPelusi..................................................... 253
Nonlinearcointegrationinfinancialtimeseries
ClaudioPizzi..................................................... 263
Optimaldynamicassetallocationinanon–Gaussianworld
GianniPola...................................................... 273
Faircostsofguaranteedminimumdeathbenefitcontracts
Franc¸oisQuittard-PinonandRivoRandrianarivony...................... 283
Solvencyevaluationoftheguarantyfundatalargefinancialcooperative
JeanRoy ........................................................ 295
A Monte Carlo approach to valueexchange options using a single
stochasticfactor
GiovanniVillani .................................................. 305
Description:The interaction between mathematicians and statisticians reveals to be an effective approach for dealing with actuarial, insurance and financial problems, both in an academic and in an operative perspective. The international conference MAF 2008, held at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venezia (Ital