• 15 May 2023
  • FADeRiS

Foundations and Applications of Decentralized Risk Sharing - FADeRiS 2023 @ KU Leuven

Welcome to the website of FADeRiS-2023 @ KU Leuven, the workshop on the Foundations and Applications of Decentralized Risk-Sharing.

  • 25 April 2023
  • Runhuan Feng

Decentralized Insurance: Technical Foundation of Business Models

The book offers an introduction to the technical foundation of decentralized insurance models, for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and practitioners. The book is self-contained and anyone with a basic...

  • 13 September 2022
  • Ze Chen, Runhuan Feng, Li Wei, Jiaqi Zhao

Cost-Effectiveness, Fairness and Adverse Selection in Mutual Aid

Online mutual aid (MA) is a novel form of risk sharing empowered by InsurTech to provide critical illness coverage without involving an insurer. By shifting from ex-ante premium to ex...

  • 06 April 2022
  • Samal Abdikerimova, Tim J. Boonen, Runhuan Feng

Multi-period Peer-to-Peer Risk Sharing

Risk sharing has been practiced in various forms in the financial industry. This paper proposes a multi-period risk-sharing mechanism for a group of participants. The design of risk-sharing strategies is...

  • 28 January 2022
  • Runhuan Feng, Ming Liu, Ning Zhang

A Unified Theory of Decentralized Insurance

Decentralized insurance can be used to describe risk sharing mechanisms under which participants trade risks among each other as opposed to passing risks mostly to an insurer in traditional centralized...

  • 04 October 2021
  • Samal Abdikerimova, Runhuan Feng

Peer-to-Peer Multi-Risk Insurance and Mutual Aid

Peer-to-peer (P2P) insurance is a decentralized network in which participants pool their resources together to compensate those who suffer losses. It is a revival of a centuries-old practice in many...