The profile of CDS in terms of payout and extreme systemically correlated gamma risk probably requires some form of regulation to increase transparency of outstanding book risk. A a large net CDS writer looks almost exactly like Lo's capital decimation partners hedge fund model.
Hurricane and earthquake insurance require regulation due to the time asymmetry in payment and risk realized combined with the difficulty in pricing acute tail events.
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Temporal connectedness accelerates with settlements in CDS. It is probably a scale free network in terms of exposures. The capacity for systemic shock "non-failure" is a direct function of liquidity. nickgogerty.typepad.co...
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Hurricane and earthquake insurance require regulation due to the time asymmetry in payment and risk realized combined with the difficulty in pricing acute tail events.
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