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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Insurance Project Workshop

Kenneth Froot and Howard Kunreuther, Organizers

June 10, 2009

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

TUESDAY JUNE 9:
6:30 pm	Group Dinner
	Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
	(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
WEDNESDAY JUNE 10:
8:00 am	Shuttle Vans Depart The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Ave.
8:15 am	Continental Breakfast
8:45 am	Introductions
9:00 am	LIRAN EINAV, Stanford University and NBER
	AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER
	MARK CULLEN, Yale University
	Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices
	Discussant: GEORGE PENNACCHI, University of Illinois
9:50 am	DARIUS LAKDWALLA and NEERAJ SOOD, RAND Corporation and NBER
	Health Insurance as a Two-Part Pricing Contract
	Discussant: MARK PAULY, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
10:40 am	Break
10:55 am	THOMAS BAKER, University of Pennsylvania
	PETER SIEGELMAN, University of Connecticut
	Enticing Low Risks into the Health Insurance Pool: An Idea from Insurance History and Behavioral Economics
	Discussant: DAVID DURBIN, Partner Re
11:45 am	DAVID MOSS, Harvard University and NBER
	An Ounce of Prevention: The Power of Public Risk Management in Stabilizing the Financial System
	Discussant: HOWARD KUNREUTHER, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
12:35 pm	Lunch
	Panel Discussion on Asset allocation and other financial policies of Insurers and Reinsurers
	KENNETH FROOT: Moderator
	JOHN GAUTHIER, Allied World Assurance
	WILLIAM POUTSIAKA, Transatlantic Reinsurance
1:35 pm	ERWANN MICHEL KERJAN, University of Pennsylvania
	PAUL RASCHKY, University of Innsbruck
	HOWARD KUNREUTHER, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
	Corporate Demand for Insurance: An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Market for Catastrophe and Non-Catastrophe Risks
	Discussant: TERRI VAUGHAN, NAIC
2:25 pm	Break
2:40 pm	ALEX BOULATOV, University of Houston
	STEPHAN DIECKMANN, University of Pennsylvania
	Disaster Relief Funds: Policy Implications for Catastrophe Insurance
	Discussant: JEFFREY BROWN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER
3:30 pm	PAUL FREEMAN, University of Denver
	STUART MILLER, AIR Worldwide
	The Evolution of Catastrophe Risk Management in Mexico
	Discussant: OLIVIER MAHUL, The World Bank
4:20 pm	Adjourn
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