Moral hazard and adverse selection are both terms used in economics, risk management, and insurance to describe situations where one party is at a disadvantage to another.

Adverse selection, a concept economists devised to explain insurance market failures, might seem far removed from the grand chessboard of geopolitics. Yet at its core lies a simple and unsettling ...

Despite many empirical studies (e.g. Riding and Haines Jr 2001, Riding et al. 2007, Cowling 2010, Uesugi et al. 2010) that evaluate the benefit of credit guarantee schemes, empirical analyses on the ...

Adverse selection (or asymmetric information) is typically used in insurance and economic markets. Essentially, it's a strategy where you force your opponents to take disadvantageous options.

Adverse selection and moral hazard are not mutually exclusive. As you can see, they work together -- people with expected costs lower than premiums drop out knowing they are covered by the ...

Moral hazard and the health insurance mandate. By Mark Thoma. March 28, 2012 / 2:35 PM EDT ... An earlier post talks about adverse selection problems in the health insurance market.

Adverse selection in health insurance is when sick people, who require greater health care coverage, buy health insurance, but healthy people do not. Adverse selection can present financial risks to ...

Moral hazard exists when a party to a transaction has an incentive to take unusual business ... Adverse selection refers to situations in which one party utilizes information they possess that ...

We test the existence of adverse selection and moral hazard in financial contracting by examining the choice of borrowers between collateralized and non-collateralized loans. Using comprehensive ...

Moral Hazard vs. Adverse Selection Moral hazard is the risk that one party has not entered into a contract in good faith or has previously provided false details about its assets, liabilities, or ...