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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Insurance Project Workshop
Kenneth Froot and Howard Kunreuther, Organizers
May 21, 2010
NBER
Feldstein Conference Room - 2^nd Floor
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, MAY 20:
6:30 pm	Group Dinner
	Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
	(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
FRIDAY, MAY 21:
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	MARTIN GRACE, Georgia State University
	JAMES TYLER LEVERTY, University of Iowa
	How Tort Reform Affects Insurance Markets
	Discussant: PAUL FREEMAN, University of Denver
9:50 am	GREG NINI, University of Pennsylvania
	Creditor Mandated Purchases of Corporate Insurance
	Discussant: JAMES GARVEN, Baylor University
10:40 am	Break
10:55 am	FRANCIS GHESQUIERE and OLIVIER MAHUL, World Bank
	Financial Protection of the State against Natural Disasters
	Discussant: ERWANN MICHEL-KERJAN, University of Pennsylvania
11:45 am	ANASTASIA KARTASHEVA, University of Pennsylvania
	SOJUNG PARK, California State University, Fullerton
	Rating Standards for Catastrophic Risks and the Insurers’ Capital Structure
	Discussant: CHRISTOPHER LEWIS, The Hartford Financial Services Group
12:35 pm	Lunch
	Lunch Discussion: KENNETH FROOT and HOWARD KUNREUTHER
	Discussion of Topics for Possible NBER Insurance Conference
1:35 pm	JOHN MAJOR, Guy Carpenter & Company, Inc.
	Information Asymmetry in the M-Curve Model
	Discussant: ALEXANDER MUERMMANN, Vienna University of Economics and Business
2:25 pm	Break
2:40 pm	DANIEL SCHWARCZ, University of Minnesota
	Regulating Consumer Demand in Insurance Markets
	Discussant: THOMAS RUSSELL, Santa Clara University
3:30 pm	LIRAN EINAV, Stanford University and NBER
	AMY FINKELSTEIN, MIT and NBER
	IULIANA PASCU, MIT
	MARK R. CULLEN, Yale University School of Medicine
	How General are Risk Preferences? Choices Under Uncertainty in Different Domains
	Discussant: GLENN HARRISON, Georgia State University
4:20 pm	Adjourn