Designing entry-monotone risk-sharing pools (opens in new tab)

While risk pooling lowers the total cost of risk, efficiency alone does not make a pool viable. Participants need terms that ensure their participation, that are immune to subgroups breaking away, and that allow new members to join. Under cash-additive risk measures, the minimum cost of a coalition's risk determines the value created by that coalition, and deterministic side payments redistribute that value among participants. Institutional risk...