Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/257932 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Risks [ISSN:] 2227-9091 [Volume:] 7 [Issue:] 3 [Article No.:] 94 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 1-41
Publisher: 
MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
Managing unemployment is one of the key issues in social policies. Unemployment insurance schemes are designed to cushion the financial and morale blow of loss of job but also to encourage the unemployed to seek new jobs more proactively due to the continuous reduction of benefit payments. In the present paper, a simple model of unemployment insurance is proposed with a focus on optimality of the individual's entry to the scheme. The corresponding optimal stopping problem is solved, and its similarity and differences with the perpetual American call option are discussed. Beyond a purely financial point of view, we argue that in the actuarial context the optimal decisions should take into account other possible preferences through a suitable utility function. Some examples in this direction are worked out.
Subjects: 
American call option
free boundary problem
geometric Brownian motion
insurance
martingale
optimal stopping
unemployment
utility
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