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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Insurance Working Group Meeting

Liran Einav and Ken Froot, Organizers

April 5-6, 2013

NBER
Feldstein Conference Room, Second Floor
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Friday, April 5 (joint afternoon session with NBER Public Economics Program)

7:30 am

8:00 am

Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

8:30 am

Morning session of the NBER PE meeting; Participants in the Insurance
Meeting are welcome to attend. The full PE program is available here.

11:45 am

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Ben Handel, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

Health Insurance for Humans: Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare  (with Jonathan Kolstad)

 

 

 

Discussant: Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics

 

 

2:10 pm

Keith Ericson, Boston University and NBER

 

How Product Standardization Affects Choice: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange  (with Amanda Starc)

 

 

 

Discussant: Neale Mahoney, University of Chicago and NBER

3:20 pm

Break

 

 

3:35 pm

Jeff Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER

 

Complexity as a Barrier to Annuitization: Do Consumers Know How to Value Annuities?  (with Arie Kapteyn, Erzo Luttmer, and Olivia Mitchell)

 

 

 

Discussant: Lee Lockwood, Northwestern University and NBER

4:45 pm

Break

 

 

5:00 pm

Levon Barseghyan, Cornell University

 

Inference under Stability of Risk Preferences  (with Francesca Molinari and Joshua Teitelbaum)

 

 

 

Discussant: Nathan Hendren, Harvard University and NBER

6:10 pm

 

6:15 pm

6:40 pm

Adjourn

 

Shuttle Van Departs from the NBER for The Royal Sonesta Hotel

Shuttle Van Departs from the NBER for The Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

7:00 pm

Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

Saturday, April 6

7:30 am

7:45 am

Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

7:45 am

Breakfast

 

 

8:15 am

Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Reducing the Cost of Ex Post Bailouts with Ex Ante Regulation: Evidence From Building Codes

 

 

 

Discussant: Erwann Michel-Kerjan, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

9:25 am

Dwight Jaffee, University of California at Berkeley

 

Equilibrium with Monoline and Multiline Insurers  

(with Rustam Ibragmiov and Johan Walden)

 

 

 

Discussant: Bernard Salanie, Columbia University

 

 

10:35 am

Break

 

 

10:50 am

Motohiro Yogo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

 

The Cost of Financial Frictions for Life Insurers  (with Ralph Koijen)

 

 

 

Discussant: Ken Froot, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Kent Smetters, University of Pennsylvania  and NBER

 

Narrow Framing and Life Insurance  (with Daniel Gottlieb)

 

 

 

Discussant: Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard University and NBER

1:10 pm

Lunch and adjourn

List of participants