Ruin probability for discrete risk processes

Abstract

We study the discrete time risk process modelled by the skip-free random walk and we derive the results connected to the ruin probability, such as crossing the fixed level, for this kind of process. We use the method relying on the classical ballot theorems to derive these results and compare them to the results obtained for the continuous time version of the risk process. We further generalize this model by adding the perturbation and, still relying on the skip-free structure of that process, we generalize the previous results on crossing the fixed level for the generalized discrete time risk process.