Price Optimisation for New Business
16 Pages Posted: 22 Nov 2017
Date Written: November 20, 2017
Abstract
This contribution is concerned with price optimisation of the new business for a non-life product. Due to high competition in the insurance market, non-life insurers are interested in increasing their conversion rates on new business based on some profit level. In this respect, we consider the competition in the market to model the probability of accepting an offer for a specific customer. We study two optimisation problems relevant for the insurer and present some algorithmic solutions for both continuous and discrete case. Finally, we provide some applications to a motor insurance dataset.
Keywords: market tariff, optimal tariff, optimal price, price elasticity, non-life insurance, competitors, non-convex optimisation, genetic algorithm, sequential quadratic programming, constraints, new business
JEL Classification: G13, G22
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