# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

January  2018, 14(1): 371-395. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2017051

## Optimal dividend and capital injection strategy with excess-of-loss reinsurance and transaction costs

 1 School of Economics, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing 210023, China 2 School of Statistics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China 3 School of Finance, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing 210023, China

* Corresponding author

Received  July 2015 Revised  December 2016 Published  June 2017

Fund Project: The authors are grateful to the two anonymous referees for their valuable suggestions. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11571113,11231005,71471081,71671082), the Humanities and Social Sciences Project of the Ministry Education of China (15YJC910008), the Program of Shanghai Subject Chief Scientist (14XD1401600), the 111 Project (B14019), the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (15KJB110009)

This article deals with an optimal dividend, reinsurance and capital injection control problem in the diffusion risk model. Under the objective of maximizing the insurance company's value, we aim at finding the joint optimal control strategy. We assume that there exist both the fixed and proportional costs in control processes and the excess-of-loss reinsurance is "expensive". We derive the closed-form solutions of the value function and optimal strategy by using stochastic control methods. Some economic interpretations of the obtained results are also given.

Citation: Gongpin Cheng, Rongming Wang, Dingjun Yao. Optimal dividend and capital injection strategy with excess-of-loss reinsurance and transaction costs. Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, 2018, 14 (1) : 371-395. doi: 10.3934/jimo.2017051
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