The Devil Made Me Do It: The Corporate Purchase of Insurance

Authors

Victor P. Goldberg, Columbia Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2009

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2202/1555-5879.1376

Abstract

Despite the fact that public corporations ought to be risk neutral, they often carry insurance. This note first considers why insurance (or more precisely, the package of services provided by insurance companies) might create value, regardless of the risk preferences of managers, shareholders, or other corporate stakeholders. One motive is that their contractual counterparties – buyers, lessors, and lenders – require that they carry insurance. Three explanations for why the requirement might be value enhancing are proposed.

Disciplines

Insurance Law | Law | Law and Economics

Comments

The final publication is available at www.degruyter.com.

Recommended Citation

Victor P. Goldberg, The Devil Made Me Do It: The Corporate Purchase of Insurance, 5 Rev. L. & Econ. 541 (2009).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/1571