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    Lec 5 - Insurance, the Archetypal Risk Management Institution, its Opportunities and Vulnerabilities

    "Lec 5 - Insurance, the Archetypal Risk Management Institution, its Opportunities and Vulnerabilities" Financial Markets (2011) (ECON 252) 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. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction 03:53 - Chapter 2. Concepts and Principles of Insurance 19:14 - Chapter 3. The Story behind AIG 35:51 - Chapter 4. Regulation of the Insurance Industry 50:04 - Chapter 5. Specific Branches of the Insurance Industry - Life and Health Insurances 01:03:18 - Chapter 6. Insurance in the Face of Catastrophes Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://oyc.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2011.

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