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  2. Insurance - Wikipedia

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    Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to protect against the risk of a contingent or uncertain loss. An entity which provides insurance is known as an ...

  3. Economics - Wikipedia

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    Economics is the social science that studies how people interact with scarce resources, such as money, goods, services, and natural resources. Economics covers a wide range of topics, such as production, consumption, distribution, trade, development, and policy. Economics can help us understand and address many real-world issues, such as poverty, inequality, unemployment, inflation, growth ...

  4. Moral hazard - Wikipedia

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    e. 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 costs of that risk. For example, when a corporation is insured, it may take on higher risk knowing that its insurance will pay the associated costs. A moral hazard may occur where the actions ...

  5. Screening (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Screening (economics) Screening in economics refers to a strategy of combating adverse selection – one of the potential decision-making complications in cases of asymmetric information – by the agent (s) with less information. For the purposes of screening, asymmetric information cases assume two economic agents, with agents attempting to ...

  6. Social insurance - Wikipedia

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    Social insurance is a public insurance that provides protection against economic risks. Participation in social insurance is compulsory. Social insurance is considered to be a type of social security. Social insurance differs from public support in that individuals' claims are partly dependent on their contributions, which can be considered as ...

  7. Adverse selection - Wikipedia

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    In economics, insurance, and risk management, adverse selection is a market situation where buyers and sellers have different information. The result is the unequal distribution of benefits to both parties, with the party having the key information benefiting more. In an ideal world, buyers should pay a price which reflects their willingness to ...

  8. Insurance and Finance - Wikipedia

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    Insurance and Finance is a research programme set up by the Geneva Association, also known as the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics.This research programme on insurance and finance comprises academic and professional research activities in the fields of finance where they are relevant to the insurance and risk management sector.

  9. International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics

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    Insurance Economics is a research programme set up by the Geneva Association, also known as the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics.. It is dedicated to making an original contribution to the progress of insurance through promoting studies of the interdependence between economics and insurance, to highlight the importance of risk and insurance economics as part of ...