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Insurance, the Archetypal Risk Management Institution

Financial Markets, Insurance

This lesson is part 5 of 21 in the course Financial Markets with Robert Shiller (Video Series)

In the beginning of the lecture, Professor Shiller talks about risk pooling as the fundamental concept of insurance, followed by references to moral hazard and selection bias as prominent problems of the insurance industry. In order to provide an explicit example from the insurance industry, he elaborates on the story behind American International Group (AIG), from its creation by Cornelius Vander Starr in Shanghai in 1919, to Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s time as CEO, until its bailout by the U.S. government in 2008.

Subsequently, he turns toward the regulation of the insurance industry, covering state insurance guarantee funds, the role of the McCarran-Ferguson Act from 1945, as well as the impact of the Dodd-Frank bill on the insurance industry. He devotes special attention to two branches of the insurance industry – life insurance and health insurance – and emphasizes, among other aspects, the consequences of the health care overhaul in the U.S. from 2010. He discusses the example of earthquakes, with insurance in Haiti and catastrophe bonds in Mexico. At the end of the lecture, he critically reflects on the role of the insurance industry in the face of catastrophes.

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In this Course

  • Financial Markets: Course Introduction
  • Risk and Financial Crises
  • Technology and Invention in Finance
  • Portfolio Diversification and Supporting Financial Institutions
  • Insurance, the Archetypal Risk Management Institution
  • Barron’s Criticism, Determinants of Investment Return
  • Lecture 7 – Efficient Markets
  • Lecture 8 – Theory of Debt, Its Proper Role, Leverage Cycles
  • Lecture 9 – Corporate Stocks
  • Lecture 10 – Real Estate Finance
  • Lecture 11 – Behavioral Finance
  • Lecture 12 – Misbehavior, Crises, Regulation and Self Regulation
  • Lecture 13 – Overview of Banks
  • Lecture 14 – A Brief History of AIG with Maurice “Hank” Greenberg
  • Lecture 15 – Forward and Futures Markets
  • Lecture 16 – Banking and Regulations in China with Laura Cha
  • Lecture 17 – Options Markets
  • Lecture 18 – Monetary Policy
  • Lecture 19 – Overview of Investment Banking
  • Lecture 20 – Professional Money Managers and Their Influence
  • Lecture 21 – Exchanges, Brokers, Dealers, Clearinghouses

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