Moral Hazard in Knock-for-Knock Clauses: Aligning Maritime Contracts with Safety Governance

This repository contains the computational materials supporting the research paper: “Risk Allocation and Insurance Implications of the K4K Clause in Maritime Contracts.” The archive provides the Python notebooks used to generate the synthetic dataset and perform the statistical modelling used in the study. The repository includes: generate_dataset.ipynb – Python notebook used to construct the synthetic maritime liability dataset using the data-generating process described in the paper. analysis_model.ipynb – Statistical analysis notebook implementing the Negative Binomial Generalized Linear Model (NB-GLM). synthetic_maritime_dataset.csv – Example dataset generated for demonstration and replication of results. README.md – Documentation explaining repository structure and instructions for reproducing the results. These materials are provided to support research transparency, reproducibility, and independent verification of the analytical results reported in the paper.