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The answer to this question, of fundamental importance in dealing with compensation rates, depends upon the answer to two others: (1) What are the characteristics of a dependable pure premium? (2) What factors tend to make a pure premium derived from experience undependable?
Within the European Union, risk-based funding requirements for life in- surance companies are currently being revised as part of the Solvency II project. However, many insurers are struggling with the implementation, which is in part due to the ine±cient methods underlying their numerical computations.
This article proposes a computer-intensive methodology to build bonus-malus scales in automobile insurance. The claim frequency model is taken from Pinquet, Guillén, and Bolancé (2001). It accounts for overdispersion, heteroskedasticity, and dependence among repeated observations. Explanatory variables are taken into account in the determination of the relativities, yiedling an integrated automobile ratemaking scheme.