Ignorance is Risk

Posted by Arnav on October 28, 2009 at 10:27 am.

From the Economist’s Free Exchange blog:

FELIX SALMON quotes one of his commenters, who writes:

The person most willing to take on risk is the one unaware he is doing so. He charges no risk premium…

The resulting market equilibrium is that the guy who is unaware of the risk ends up loaded with it. Then the music stops.

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