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North American Actuarial Journal Volume 9, 2005 - Issue 3
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Minimizing the Probability of Ruin When Claims Follow Brownian Motion with Drift

S. David Promislow Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada
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Virginia R. Young Dept. of Mathematics, University of Michigan, 525 E. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, 48109
Pages 110-128 | Published online: 03 Jan 2013

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