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A MARKOV-MODULATED GROWTH COLLAPSE MODEL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2009

Offer Kella
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905; Israel E-mail: offer.kella@huji.ac.il
Andreas Löpker
Affiliation:
EURANDOM and Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513; 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands E-mail: lopker@eurandom.tue.nl
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Abstract

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We consider a growth collapse model in a random environment for which the inputrates might depend on the state of an underlying irreducible Markov chain and atstate change epochs there is a possible downward jump to a level that is arandom fraction of the level just before the jump. The distributions of thesejumps are allowed to depend on both the originating and target states. Under avery weak assumption we develop an explicit formula for the conditional moments(of all orders) of the time stationary distribution. We then consider specialcases and show how to use this result to study a growth collapse process inwhich the times between collapses have a phase-type distribution.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009