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Moral Hazard

Moral Hazard is the tendency for agents who are insulated from risk to behave more recklessly than they would if they bore the full consequences of their actions. A core concept in economics and insurance theory, it arises whenever there is a separation between who takes the risk and who bears its consequences — creating incentives for excessive risk-taking at the expense of others.