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>Another classic detail of insurance markets is that insurers need to diversify the risks that they underwrite: for example, if you provide flood insurance, then you wouldn’t want to write all your policies in a single town by the river: when one house gets flooded by a storm, chances are that all the houses get flooded, and you go out of business. That’s concentration of risk, and insurers strive to avoid it.

If I have insured a whole population by the river, then I'm heavily incentivized to sell an additional insurance policy to someone else by that same river, after all, if there is a flood, I cannot become more bankrupt, and in the other case, I collect one more premium.



Not really. Insurance is heavily regulated. The insurer would be required to buy more reinsurance to cover that additional risk, until the regulator was satisfied.


>insurers strive to avoid it.

This is not true, and nothing you have said contradicts my argument to that effect.




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