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In the classical risk model, the insurer's surplus iswhere $u\ge 0$ is initial capital, $N(t)$ is a Poisson process of rate $\lambda >0$, and the claim sizes are positive independent and identically distributed random variables with expected value $\mu$, independent of the claim-arrival process. Premium flows in at constant rate $c$. A positive relative safety loading $\theta$ meansso premium income exceeds the expected claim cost per unit time. The ruin stopping time is $\tau =\inf \{t\ge 0:U(t)<0\}$, with $\tau =\infty$ if ruin never occurs, and the ultimate ruin probability is $\psi (u)=\mathbb{P}(\tau <\infty )$.

Assume the stated positive adjustment coefficient $R$ exists and that the claim moment-generating function is finite at $R$. The Lundberg inequality isHere is a proof, including the stopping argument. By conditioning on the Poisson distribution of $N(t)$, the random-sum transform identity givesThe adjustment coefficient equation is $\lambda (M(R)-1)=cR$. Consequently the exponential surplus martingalehas expected value one at every finite time. More strongly, the claim process has independent increments, so for $s\le t$,Thus $Z$ is a nonnegative continuous-time martingale for the filtration generated by arrivals and claim sizes. For a fixed finite horizon $T$, the optional stopping theorem at the bounded stopping time $\tau \wedge T$ gives $\mathbb{E}{Z}_{\tau \wedge T}=1$. This bounded use is legitimate: the stopped values belong to the closed martingale on $[0,T]$ given by conditional expectations of the integrable variable $Z_T$.

On $\{\tau \le T\}$, the surplus is negative, and therefore $C(\tau )-c\tau =u-U(\tau )>u$. By nonnegativity on the complementary event,The ruin events increase to $\{\tau <\infty \}$ as $T$ increases, so continuity of probability gives the claimed Lundberg inequality. No expectation identity at the unbounded stopping time $\tau$ is needed. Positive loading by itself does not guarantee a positive adjustment coefficient for every claim law; the existence assumption is used here.

For the exponential distribution of claim sizes, $M(r)=1/(1-\mu r)$ for $r<1/\mu$. Substitution in the adjustment coefficient equation givesDiscard the zero root and divide by $\mu r$. The unique positive solution iswhich lies strictly inside the finite-transform domain.

For deterministic claim sizes, the claim moment-generating function is $e^{\mu r}$. Define $h(r)=e^{\mu r}-1-(1+\theta )\mu r$. It satisfies $h(0)=0$, $h^{\prime }(0)=-\theta \mu <0$, $h^{\prime \prime }(r)={\mu }^2{e}^{\mu r}>0$, and $h(r)\to \infty$ as $r\to \infty$. Thus its strict convexity gives exactly one positive zero $R_{\mu }$, with $h(r)<0$ for $0<r<R_{\mu }$.

Put $x=\mu R=\theta /(1+\theta )\in (0,1)$. Since $-\log (1-x)>x$, we have $e^x<1/(1-x)$. HenceIt follows thatThus the deterministic-claim Lundberg inequality provides a smaller upper bound at positive capital; at zero capital both bounds equal one. This is a special case of deterministic claims maximize the adjustment coefficient at fixed mean and loading: fixing the mean and loading, variability lowers the exponential decay coefficient relative to deterministic claims. The ordering of these upper bounds alone is not a proof that the actual ultimate ruin probabilities are ordered.

In the classical risk model, write the surplus aswhere $N(t)$ is the claim-arrival Poisson process. The ruin time is $\tau =\inf \{t\ge 0:U(t)<0\}$. The ultimate ruin probability isThe positive root $R$ in the question is the adjustment coefficient. The Lundberg inequality and the Cramér–Lundberg approximation are, respectively,The interior adjustment coefficient ruin prefactor is finite here because $R$ lies strictly inside the finite domain of the moment-generating function; the claim-size density supplies the nonarithmetic condition for the asymptotic. Strict convexity makes its denominator positive. The approximation is an asymptotic statement, while the inequality is a bound at every nonnegative initial capital.

The inequality can also be seen directly from the exponential surplus martingale $e^{-RU(t)}$. Its expectation factor per unit time is zero in the exponent because $\lambda (M_X(R)-1)-cR=0$. Apply the optional stopping theorem at $\tau \wedge T$, a bounded time. On $\{\tau \le T\}$, $e^{-RU(\tau )}>1$, so $\mathbb{P}(\tau \le T)\le e^{-Ru}$. Increasing $T$ proves the bound without stopping at an unbounded time.

For any nonnegative claim size, the Tonelli theorem applied to $e^{RX}-1={\int }_0^{X}R{e}^{Rx}dx$ gives the exponential tail identityCombining it with the adjustment equation yieldsThe density $f_Y(x)=(1-F_X(x))/\mu$ integrates to one by the tail integral formula for moments. Thus $Y$ has the equilibrium claim-size distribution, and the preceding formula says $M_Y(R)=1+\theta$.

Under the given NBUE condition, the stochastic order comparison is $1-F_Y(x)\le 1-F_X(x)$ at every $x\ge 0$. Apply the same exponential tail identity to both variables to obtainConsequentlyand rearrangement proves the adjustment-coefficient lower bound for NBUE claims:This uses the specified distributional comparison, not an unwarranted assumption that an arbitrary equilibrium claim law is always smaller than its original law.

For the final example, $f_X(x)=x{e}^{-x}$ is the shape-two, rate-one gamma distribution, with $\mu =2$, survival function ${\overline{F}}_X(x)=(1+x)e^{-x}$, and moment-generating function $M_X(r)=(1-r{)}^{-2}$ for $r<1$. With $\theta =1/10$, the positive adjustment root satisfiesDividing out the zero root and simplifying gives $11R^2-17R+1=0$. Only the smaller root is in the finite-transform interval $(0,1)$, soThe equilibrium density and survival function areThus ${\overline{F}}_Y(x)\le (1+x)e^{-x}={\overline{F}}_X(x)$ for every $x\ge 0$, proving that this claim law is new better than used in expectation. Finally the lower bound equals $1/22$. Our exact root is larger because $16>7\sqrt{5}$, equivalently $256>245$. Henceverifying the requested bound for the example.

Let $C_t$ be the cumulative claim amount and $U_t=u+ct-C_t$ the surplus in the classical risk model. The supplied adjustment coefficient satisfies $\lambda (M_X(R)-1)=cR$. The Compound Poisson process has independent increments, and the random-sum transform identity givesIt follows that $Z_t=\exp (R(C_t-ct))$ is a nonnegative martingale with $Z_0=1$: conditional on the past, the multiplicative increment has expected value one. This is the exponential surplus martingale.

Let $\tau =\inf \{t\ge 0:U_t<0\}$ be the ruin stopping time. Surplus decreases only at claim arrivals, so on $\{\tau \le t\}$ the deficit at ruin gives $C_{\tau }-c\tau >u$ and $Z_{\tau }>e^{Ru}$. The optional stopping theorem at the bounded stopping time $\tau \wedge t$ yieldsAs $t$ increases without bound, the events $\{\tau \le t\}$ increase to eventual ruin. Hence the ultimate ruin probability satisfies the Lundberg inequalityThe proof uses only bounded-time stopping; it does not presume that the martingale can be stopped with equality of expected values at an unbounded ruin time.