Date: March 13th, 2009

Risk management’s perpetual-motion machine: Part 2, the magic elixir

13 March, 2009 (11:43) | Capital markets, Subprime, Theory, US News | No comments

 [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
Yesterday’s post on the quest for a magic machine to quantify correlation among disparate individual risks took us, via a terrific Wired Magazine article [Hat tip: Matthew Healy], to the point of understanding that different risks correlate differently, and if we knew their correlation rates, we could design appropriate financial instruments [...]