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Video: Do we need to rethink risk sharing?

Wanda Mimra
Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich
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“In our risk management decisions we are subject to subject to certain behavioural patterns or biases”

In this World Economic Forum IdeasLab video, recorded during the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014, Wanda Mimra from ETH Zurich, argues that we must reconsider our approach to risk sharing and management.

To watch the full video click on the player above.

The Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2015 takes place in Dalian, People’s Republic of China, from 9th-11th September 2015.

Author: Wanda Mimra is an assistant professor of risk and insurance economics at the Department of Management, Technology and Economics of ETH Zürich.

Image: A man walks past buildings at the central business district of Singapore February 14, 2007. REUTERS/Nicky Loh

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