{ "id": "1101.2183", "version": "v1", "published": "2011-01-11T19:25:23.000Z", "updated": "2011-01-11T19:25:23.000Z", "title": "On tails of perpetuities", "authors": [ "Pawel Hitczenko" ], "journal": "Journal of Applied Probability, 47 (2010), 1191-1194", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "We establish an upper bound on the tails of a random variable that arises as a solution of a stochastic difference equation. In the non--negative case our bound is similar to a lower bound obtained by Goldie and Gr\\\"ubel in 1996.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2011-01-11T19:25:23.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "60E15", "60H25" ], "keywords": [ "perpetuities", "stochastic difference equation", "upper bound", "lower bound" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011arXiv1101.2183H" } } }