In this paper we consider some insurance policies related with drawdown and drawup events of log-returns for an underlying asset modeled by a spectrally negative geometric L\'evy process. We consider four contracts among which three were introduced in Zhang et al. (2013) for a geometric Brownian motion. The first one is an insurance contract where  protection buyer pays a constant premium until the drawdown of fixed size of log-returns occurs. In return he/she receives  certain insured amount at the drawdown epoch. Next insurance contract provides protection from any specified drawdown with a drawup contingency. This contract expires early if  certain fixed drawup event occurs prior to  fixed drawdown. The last two contracts are extensions of the previous ones by additional cancellable feature which allows an investor to terminate the contract earlier. We focus on two problems: calculating the fair premium p for the basic contracts and identifying the optimal stopping rule for the polices with cancellable feature. To do this we solve some two-sided exit problems related with the drawdown and the drawup of spectrally negative L\'evy processes  which is of own scientific interest. We also heavily rely on a theory of optimal stopping.
In this paper we consider some insurance policies related to drawdown and drawup events of log-returns for an underlying asset modeled by a spectrally negative geometric L\'evy process. We consider four contracts , three of which were introduced in Zhang et al. (2013) for a geometric Brownian motion. The first one is an insurance contract where the protection buyer pays a constant premium until the drawdown of fixed size of log-returns occurs. In return he/she receives a certain insured amount at the drawdown epoch. The next insurance contract provides protection from any specified drawdown with a drawup contingency. This contract expires early if a certain fixed drawup event occurs prior to the fixed drawdown. The last two contracts are extensions of the previous ones by an additional cancellation feature which allows the investor to terminate the contract earlier. We focus on two problems: calculating the fair premium p for the basic contracts and identifying the optimal stopping rule for the policies with the cancellation feature. To do this we solve some two-sided exit problems related to drawdown and drawup of spectrally negative L\'evy processes , which is of independent mathematical interest. We also heavily rely on the theory of optimal stopping.
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