In economics, a moral hazard is a situation where an economic actor has an incentive to increase its exposure to risk because it does not bear the full...

third-party companies. A related form of market failure is moral hazard. With moral hazard, the asymmetric information between the parties causes one...

the contract theory framework to several typical situations, labeled moral hazard, adverse selection and signalling. The spirit of these models lies in...

failure in the worst case. Examples of this problem are adverse selection, moral hazard, and monopolies of knowledge. A common way to visualise information asymmetry...

A hazard is a potential source of harm. Substances, events, or circumstances can constitute hazards when their nature would potentially allow them to...

becomes extremely unaffordable due to the issues of adverse selection and moral hazard, and to counteract such steep prices, the need for a publicly mandated...

asymmetric information does not lead to adverse selection, but instead moral hazard, the situation where deliberate actions by one of the parties of the...

importance of the moral hazard problem cannot be overstated." However, not having a lender of last resort for fear of moral hazard may have worse consequences...

losses through moral hazard, insurance fraud, and preventive steps by the insurance company. Insurance scholars have typically used moral hazard to refer to...

for investment strategies that follow a Taleb distribution, creating moral hazard. In such a scenario, the fund can claim high asset management and performance...