Tests on tail index for extremes

Since several students got the intuition that natural catastrophes might be non-insurable (underlying distributions with infinite mean), I will post some comments on testing procedures for extreme value models. A natural idea is to use a likelihood ratio test (for composite hypotheses). Let denote the parameter (of our parametric model, e.g. the tail index), and we would like to know whether is smaller or larger than (where in the context of finite versus infinite mean ). I.e. either belo..