The devil made me do it: The corporate purchase of insurance

Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Goldberg, Victor P ^a  

^a Columbia University School of Law ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Contract; Counterparty; Insurance; Risk; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349804926     PISSN: 15555879     EISSN: 15555879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1555-5879.1376     Document Type: Review

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