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title: Peer-to-peer Risk-sharing with Losses
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5013193/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 5013193
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5013193
featured: 2024-11-13
citations: unknown
topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
---


# Peer-to-peer Risk-sharing with Losses

A study on catastrophic loss insurance suggested that diversifying such losses could be detrimental, recommending no diversification instead.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5013193
- Identifier: SSRN 5013193
- Released: 2024-11-07
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 74 (2024-11-13): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-11-13/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Risk, Credit & Banking

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