Insurance: The Archetypal Risk Management Financial Markets (ECON 252) -Year 2008 Insurance provides significant risk management to a broad public, and is an essential tool for promoting human welfare. By pooling large numbers of independent or low-correlated risks, insurance providers can minimize overall risk. The risk management is tailored to individual circumstances and reflects centuries of insurance industry experience with real risks and with moral hazard and selection bias issues. Probability theory and statistical tools help to explain how insurance companies use risk pooling to minimize overall risk. Innovation and government regulation have played important roles in the formation and oversight of insurance institutions. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Circumventing Selection Bias in the Equity Premium Puzzle 10:13 - Chapter 2. Politics in the Stock Market and Modern Mutual Funds 19:43 - Chapter 3. The Intuition behind Insurance 34:54 - Chapter 4. Multiline, Monoline, and P&C Insurances 43:52 - Chapter 5. The Advent and Development of the Insurance Industry 56:06 - Chapter 6. Government and NAIC Regulation of Insurance 01:05:14 - Chapter 7. Problems with Insurance Companies Today Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2008.
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Lec 2 -Year 2008 - The Universal Principle of Risk Management: Pooling
Lec 3 -Year 2008 - Technology and Invention in Finance
Lec 4 -Year 2008 - Portfolio Diversification and Supporting Financial
Lec 6 -Year 2008 - Efficient Markets vs. Excess Volatility
Lec 7 -Year 2008 - Behavioral Finance: The Role of Psychology
Lec 8 -Year 2008 - Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation
Lec 9 -Year 2008 - Guest Lecture by David Swensen
Lec 10 -Year 2008 - Debt Markets: Term Structure
Lec 12 -Year 2008 - Real Estate Finance and its Vulnerability to Crisis
Lec 13 -Year 2008 - Banking: Successes and Failures
Lec 14 -Year 2008 - Guest Lecture by Andrew Redleaf
Lec 15 -Year 2008 - Guest Lecture by Carl Icahn
Lec 16 -Year 2008 - The Evolution and Perfection of Monetary Policy
Lec 17 -Year 2008 - Investment Banking and Secondary Markets
Lec 18 -Year 2008 - Professional Money Managers and Their Influence
Lec 19 -Year 2008 - Brokerage, ECNs, etc.
Lec 20 -Year 2008 - Guest Lecture by Stephen Schwarzman
Lec 21 -Year 2008 - Forwards and Futures
Lec 22 -Year 2008 - Stock Index, Oil and Other Futures Markets
Lec 23 -Year 2008 - Options Markets
Lec 24 -Year 2008 - Making It Work for Real People: The Democratization
Lec 25 -Year 2008 - Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis I
Lec 26 -Year 2008 Learning from and Responding to Financial Crisis II