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The Application of Affine Processes in Multi-Cohort Mortality Model

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Yajing Xu, Michael Sherris and Jonathan Ziveyi

Cohort effects have been identified in many countries. However, some mortality models only consider the modelling and projection of age-period effects. Others, that incorporate cohort effects, do not consider cohort specific survival curves that are important for pricing and hedging purposes.

In this paper, we consider modelling mortality development on a cohort basis, propose and assess a multi-cohort mortality model in an affine framework. We model the mortality intensity with common factors that affect all the cohorts as well as cohort specific factors that only affect specific cohorts, so that the correlations among cohorts are not perfect.

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