Abstract
Many insurance products provide benefits that are contingent on the combined survival status of two lives. To value such benefits accurately, we require a statistical model for the impact of the survivorship of one life on another. In this paper we first set up two models, one Markov and one semi-Markov, to model the dependence between the lifetimes of a husband and wife. From the models we can measure the extent of three types of dependence: (1) the instantaneous dependence due to a catastrophic event that affect both lives, (2) the short-term impact of spousal death, and (3) the long-term association between lifetimes. Then we apply the models to a set of jointlife and last-survivor annuity data from a large Canadian insurance company. Given the fitted models, we study the impact of dependence on annuity values and examine the potential inaccuracy in pricing if we assume lifetimes are independent. Finally, we compare our Markovian models with two copula models considered in previous research on modeling joint-life mortality.
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