Adverse selection and moral hazard in corporate insurance markets: Evidence from the 2011 Thailand floods

This paper is the first empirical study on adverse selection and moral hazard in the corpo-rate disaster insurance market. By constructing and examining a unique plant-level panel dataset on the 2011 Thailand floods, we overcome the general lack of data that has pre-viously prevented a systematic study on the issue. By exploiting unexpected, large losses caused by a severe disaster, we find evidence of adverse selection for both property and business interruption insurance. Moral hazard, measured by impacts on recovery effort s, is also found for both types of insurance, albeit more salient effects for business interruption insurance.(c) 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )