Optimal dividends with an affine penalty

We find the optimal dividend strategy in two related risk models under an affine penalty for ruin. The first risk model is the classical Cramer–Lundberg risk model, and the second is the so-called dual risk model. Under both models, for exponentially distributed jumps, we show that the optimal dividend strategy is a barrier strategy and obtain the barrier explicitly. Moreover, we prove that the optimal barrier increases with respect to the...