Tag: risk

01 Apr 2008

Jason on Risk Equalization and Deductibles

Sometimes I wonder why we even bother with insurance. Well, to be more precise, it would be good to know exactly how much we are paying for how much risk reduction (as individuals). We (sometimes) know how much we are paying, but how many of us know what our risk profiles look like under each [...]

03 Jan 2008

Probabilistic Views of the World.

I’m not going to say this is obvious (it is not), and there is still the problem of how to deal with low risk, high impact events (i.e. should we deal with this in a linear manner, or not?). But most of what he says here seems to be basic probabilistic economics (basic, but most [...]