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A time change strategy to model reporting delaydynamics in claims reserving

4th EAJ Conference, Leuven

Katrien AntonioLRisk - KU Leuven and ASE - University of Amsterdam

February 8, 2018

K. Antonio, KU Leuven & UvA 1 / 26

www.lrisk.be

Acknowledgement

The talk is based on joint work with:

Gerda Claeskens, Jonas Crevecoeur (present!) and Roel Verbelen.

K. Antonio, KU Leuven & UvA 2 / 26

IntroductionDevelopment of a single claim

Time

IBNR RBNS Closed

Occurrence Reporting Closure

PaymentsReporting delay

K. Antonio, KU Leuven & UvA Introduction 3 / 26

IntroductionAggregated approach

We aggregate the data from the time line into a run-off triangle or claimsdevelopment triangle:

Time



All claims in portfolio

Compress data

Run-off time

Occ

urr

ence

Yea

r

K. Antonio, KU Leuven & UvA Introduction 4 / 26

Research focusIBNR claim counts

Time

IBNR RBNS Closed



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Time t

Time sinceoccurrence claim



Time t

Time sinceoccurrence claim

Evaluation date τ

The insurance company is not aware (yet) of claims related to pastexposures that are not (yet) reported!


Research questions

I Research questions with focus on IBNR?

• How many claims occurred but are not yet reported, because reportingdelay is subject to right truncation?

• When will these IBNR claims be reported?

I Pioneering work by Ragnar Norberg (1993, 1999).

I Recent contributions (a.o.) by Avanzi, Wong & Yang (2017), Badescu,Lin & Tang (2016), Verrall & Wuthrich (2016).

K. Antonio, KU Leuven & UvA Research questions 7 / 26

Case studyStructure of the data

I Large European dataset of liability claims (from private individuals).

I Three essential variables:

• Occurrence date

• Reporting date

• Exposure.

I Observation window: July 1, 1996 to August 31, 2009.

K. Antonio, KU Leuven & UvA Case study 8 / 26

Case studyClaim occurrence process

0

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200

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1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

occurrence date in days

obse

rved

cla

im c

ount


Case studyReporting process

0

100

200

300

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

reporting date in days

repo

rted

cla

im c

ount


Case studyReporting delay

Declining pattern in reporting delay + intra-week pattern, depending on theoccurrence day of the week.

All claims

0.0

0.1

0.2

0 7 14delay in days since occurrence

repo

rtin

g pr

obab

ility

Monday

0.0

0.1

0.2


repo

rtin

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obab

ility

Thursday

0.0

0.1

0.2


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ility


Case studyHolidays

0 25 50 75 100

Liberation Day

Easter

Christmas

Day after Christmas

Pentecost

New Year

King’s Day

Easter Monday

Pentecost Monday

Ascension Day

New Year’s Eve

Good Friday

Daily Average

average number of reports


Case studyTotal IBNR counts

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1800

2000

2200

Oct 2003 Jan 2004 Apr 2004 Jul 2004evaluation date

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Oct 01 Oct 15 Nov 01 Nov 15 Dec 01evaluation date

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The statistical model

I Two contributions:

1. Verbelen, R., Antonio, K., Claeskens, G & Crevecoeur, J. 2018.

• joint estimation of occurrence process and reporting delay distribution

• regression approach

2. Crevecoeur, J., Antonio., K. & Verbelen, R. 2018.

• incorporate calendar day effects in reporting delay distribution

cfr. national holidays and during weekend, reporting at specific delays(e.g. 14 days, 1 year)

K. Antonio, KU Leuven & UvA The statistical model 14 / 26

https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/580750/1/PhD-Thesis-Roel-Verbelen.pdf

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vyqauws69xu8rr6/A time change strategy to model reporting delay dynamics in claims reserving.pdf

Notations

I Nt : the (total) number of claims that occurred on day t.

I Nt,s : the number of claims from day t that are reported on day s.

I Each claim gets reported eventually, thus

Nt =∞∑s=t

Nt,s .


The statistical modelAssumptions

(A1) The daily total claim counts Nt for t = 1, . . . , τ are independentlyPoisson distributed with intensity λt

Nt ∼ POI(λt).

(A2) Conditional on Nt , the claim counts Nt,s for s = t, t + 1, . . . aremultinomially distributed with probabilities pt,s .

Combining (A1) and (A2), the Nt,s are independent and

Nt,s ∼ POI(λt · pt,s).


The statistical modelThe likelihood

I We observeNR = {Nt,s | t ≤ s ≤ τ}

where t ≤ τ indicates claim occurrence and t ≤ s ≤ τ reporting of theclaim.

I Log-likelihood of observed data:

`(λ,p;NR) =τ∑

t=1

τ∑s=t

(−λt · pt,s︸︷︷︸

(?)

+ log(λt) · Nt,s + Nt,s · log(pt,s)− log(Nt,s !))

difficult to optimize (due to ?).


Time change strategyNon parametric occurrence process

I Estimate the occurrence process non-parametrically.

I Likelihood is maximal when

λt =

∑τs=t Nt,s∑τs=t pt,s

=NRt (τ)

pRt (τ).

I Replacing λt

`(p;NR) =τ∑

t=1

τ∑s=t

Nt,s · log(pt,s)−τ∑

t=1

NRt (τ) · log(pRt (τ)) + constants.


Time change strategyThe idea pictured!

αthu,0

s − tThu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed

pt,s

u

αthu,0

Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed

fUt

ϕt(u)

αThu

ThuFri

SatSun

MonTue

Wed

fU

αSat

pt,s =

∫ s−t+1

s−tfUt (u)du

= FUt (s − t + 1)− FUt (s − t).


Time change strategyThe idea pictured!

αthu,0

s − tThu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed

pt,s

u

αthu,0

Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed

fUt

ϕt(u)

αThu

ThuFri

SatSun

MonTue

Wed

fU

αSat

pt,s = FU(ϕt(s − t + 1))− FU(ϕt(s − t))

where ϕt(d) =d∑

i=1

αt,t+i−1 with αt,s reporting exposure


Time change strategyStructuring the reporting exposures

I Use a standard distribution for U.

I Explain the daily reporting exposures as a function of covariates:

αt,s = exp (x′t,s · γ).

I Joint estimation of distribution U and regression parameters tostructure αt,s .


Case studyResults - first evaluation

How many IBNR claims (on August 31, 2004) will be reported byAugust 31, 2009?

• Observed: 2049 claims

• Granular: 2012.7 claims

• Chain ladder: 2043.2 claims

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Case studyResults - second evaluation (only granular)

When are the claims that are IBNR (on August 31, 2004) reported?

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50

100

Sep 01 Sep 15 Oct 01 Oct 15 Nov 01reporting date

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rted

cla

ims

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900

Sep2004

Oct2004

Nov2004

Dec2004

Jan2005

Feb2005

Mar2005

Apr2005

May2005

Jun2005

Jul2005

Aug2005

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methoddatamodel


Case studyResults - third evaluation

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data granular


Case studyResults - third evaluation

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data chain ladder year chain ladder 28 days


Conclusion

I The message is not that chain-ladder should disappear!

I Take home messages:

• the presented methods increase insight in the available data and thedynamics in claim development patterns

(fits within the increasing interest in data analytics)

(characteristics can be taken into account)

• caution: many choices involved, should be done with care!

K. Antonio, KU Leuven & UvA Conclusion 25 / 26

More information

For more information, please visit:

LRisk website, www.lrisk.be

my homepage, www.econ.kuleuven.be/katrien.antonio.

Thanks to

Ageas Continental Europe Argenta

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