Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 43 3 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
For the Poisson process of claims and relative safety loading , the premium rate in the classical risk model is . Dividing the adjustment coefficient equation by explains why the arrival rate cancels. Interpret as the upper endpoint of the finite moment-generating function domain, so for and its stated divergence occurs at that endpoint.
Set . ThenDifferentiation is valid inside the finite-transform domain, and its positive neighbourhood gives finite moments of every order. Thus is strictly convex and negative just to the right of zero. If , divergence of makes at the endpoint. If , choose with ; then , which eventually exceeds every linear function. Again . The intermediate value theorem gives a positive zero.
There is at most one positive zero: strict convexity and make the secant slope strictly increasing for . It starts at and crosses zero exactly once. HenceThis proves the secant-slope existence criterion for an adjustment coefficient in the present setting.
Put . For , the positive remainder of the exponential series gives . Apply it to and take expectations:Dividing by yieldsKeeping the cubic term similarly givesThe polynomial is strictly increasing for , is negative at zero and tends to infinity. Let be its unique positive zero. The last inequality says , soFinally, , whence . Monotonicity gives . Thus the requested upper bounds can in fact be sharpened to the strict ordering . The bounds themselves need not lie in the finite-transform domain; the argument only evaluates the actual transform at and polynomial moments elsewhere. These are polynomial moment bounds for the adjustment coefficient.
For rate- exponential distribution claims,The positive root satisfies after dividing out , soThe cubic-bound equation reduces to , selecting the displayed positive root. In particular , as required by the transform domain, for every .