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Søren Asmussen

Søren Asmussen

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Mathematics

D-Index
56
Citations
16802
World Ranking
724
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize

Overview

Søren Asmussen is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on areas intersecting economics, econometrics, finance, and decision sciences, with notable contributions in social sciences as well. Their work spans various subfields including management science and operations research, finance, demography, economics and econometrics, and mathematical physics.

The main topics addressed by Søren Asmussen cover:

  • Probability and Risk Models
  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Stochastic processes and financial applications
  • Insurance and Financial Risk Management
  • Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling
  • Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
  • Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis

Søren Asmussen has published research in several academic venues, including:

  • Queueing Systems
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Actuarial Journal
  • Quantitative Finance
  • Scandinavian Actuarial Journal

Recent scientific papers include:

  • "Matrix representations of life insurance payments," 2020, European Actuarial Journal
  • "Gram-Charlier methods, regime-switching and stochastic volatility in exponential Lévy models," 2021, Quantitative Finance
  • "On the role of skewness and kurtosis in tempered stable (CGMY) Lévy models in finance," 2022, Finance and Stochastics
  • "On the risk of credibility premium rules," 2021, Scandinavian Actuarial Journal
  • "Erlangization/Canadization of Phase-Type Jump Diffusions, with Applications to Barrier Options," 2024, Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Mogens Steffensen
  • Mogens Bladt
  • Corina Constantinescu
  • Julie Thøgersen
  • Peter W. Glynn

Søren Asmussen has also contributed to academic literature with book publications. Notably, one book titled Risk and Insurance was published in 2020 by Springer Nature.

Among awards, Søren Asmussen received the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Applied Probability And Queues

    soren Asmussen

  • Stochastic Simulation: Algorithms and Analysis

    Søren Asmussen;Peter W. Glynn

  • Controlled diffusion models for optimal dividend pay-out

    Søren Asmussen;Michael Taksar

  • Approximations of small jumps of Lévy processes with a view towards simulation

    Søren Asmussen;Jan Rosiński

  • Russian and American put options under exponential phase-type Lévy models

    Søren Asmussen;Florin Avram;Martijn R. Pistorius

  • Optimal risk control and dividend distribution policies: example of excess-of loss reinsurance for an insurance corporation

    Søren Asmussen;Bjarne Højgaard;Michael Taksar

  • Risk theory in a Markovian environment

    Søren Asmussen

  • Marked point processes as limits of Markovian arrival streams

    Søren Asmussen;Ger Koole

  • Stationary distributions for fluid flow models with or without Brownian noise

    Søren Asmussen

  • Subexponential asymptotics for stochastic processes : extremal behavior, stationary distributions and first passage probabilities

    Søren Asmussen

  • Rare events simulation for heavy-tailed distributions

    Søren Asmussen;Klemens Binswanger;Bjarne Højgaard

  • Collapsibility and response variables in contingency tables

    Søren Asmussen;David Edwards

  • Discretization Error in Simulation of One-Dimensional Reflecting Brownian Motion

    Soren Asmussen;Peter Glynn;Jim Pitman

  • Improved algorithms for rare event simulation with heavy tails

    Søren Asmussen;Dirk P. Kroese

  • Stationarity detection in the initial transient problem

    Søren Asmussen;Peter W. Glynn;Hermann Thorisson

  • Asymptotics for sums of random variables with local subexponential behaviour

    Søren Asmussen;Serguei Foss;Dmitry Korshunov

  • Large deviations results for subexponential tails, with applications to insurance risk

    Søren Asmussen;Claudia Klüppelberg

  • ERLANGIAN APPROXIMATIONS FOR FINITE-HORIZON RUIN PROBABILITIES

    Soren Asmussen;Florin Avram;Miguel Usabel

  • Simulation of Ruin Probabilities for Subexponential Claims

    S. Asmussen;K. Binswanger

  • Sampling at subexponential times, with queueing applications

    Søren Asmussen;Claudia Klüppelberg;Karl Sigman

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter W. Glynn
Peter W. Glynn Stanford University
Hansjörg Albrecher
Hansjörg Albrecher University of Lausanne
Claudia Klüppelberg
Claudia Klüppelberg Technical University of Munich
Reuven Y. Rubinstein
Reuven Y. Rubinstein Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Volker Schmidt
Volker Schmidt University of Ulm
Dirk P. Kroese
Dirk P. Kroese University of Queensland
Johan Segers
Johan Segers Université Catholique de Louvain
Jim Pitman
Jim Pitman University of California, Berkeley
Ger Koole
Ger Koole Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Benjamin Melamed
Benjamin Melamed Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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