EVT and Its Application to Pricing of Catastrophe (Typhoon) Reinsurance

Abstract

Extreme value theory is a branch of the theory of order statistics and it is a statistical study of extreme events disciplined approach. There is often extreme values in catastrophe losses, the use of traditional methods of statistical laws describe the amount of catastrophe losses would ignore the existence of extreme data. In this paper, we consider the premium of excess-of-loss reinsurance policies with different attachment points based on the idea of layered pricing using extreme value model, and we fit POT model to the typhoon loss date of Zhejiang Province to determine the pure premium of typhoon in the empirical analysis.