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Insurance Working Group Meeting Riverfront
Room 40 Edwin
H. Land Blvd. Cambridge,
MA |
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Friday,
February 28 (NBER Healthcare Meeting; NBER Insurance
participants are welcome to attend) |
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8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:30 am |
Jill Horwitz, University of California Los Angeles and NBER Daniel Polsky, University of Pennsylvania |
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Challenges
To Regulatory Decentralization: Lessons From State Health |
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9:30 am |
Jeffrey Clemens,
University of California at San Diego and NBER Joshua Gottlieb,
University of British Columbia |
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Bargaining in the Shadow of a
Giant: Medicare's Influence on Private Payment Systems |
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10:30 am |
Break |
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(NBER Insurance and NBER Healthcare
joint program) |
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11:00 am |
Marika Cabral, University of Texas at Austin and NBER |
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Externalities and
Taxation of Supplemental Insurance: A Study of Medicare and Medigap |
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(with Neale Mahoney) |
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Discussant: Mark
Duggan, University of Pennsylvania and NBER |
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12:15 pm |
Lunch Room Charles B |
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1:15 pm |
Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER |
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Beyond
Statistics: The Economic Content of Risk Scores (not available for download) |
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(with Amy Finkelstein, Ray Kluender,
and Paul Schrimpf) |
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Discussant: Robin
Lee, New York University |
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2:30 pm |
Break |
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2:45 pm |
Darius Lakdawalla,
University of Southern California and NBER |
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(with Anup Malani and Julian Reif) |
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Discussant: Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and
NBER |
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4:00 pm |
Break |
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(NBER Insurance Meeting; NBER
Healthcare participants are welcome to attend) |
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4:15 pm |
Florian Scheuer, Stanford University and NBER |
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(with Kent
Smetters) |
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Gaston Palmucci,
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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The
Welfare Effects of Banning Risk-Rated Pricing in Health Insurance Markets:
Evidence From Chile |
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(with Laura Dague) |
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5:45 pm |
Adjourn |
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6:15 pm |
Group Dinner at Bambara
Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (across the street
from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) |
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Saturday,
March 1 |
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7:45 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:15 am |
Motohiro Yogo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
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(with Ralph Koijen) |
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Discussant: Scott Harrington, University of
Pennsylvania |
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9:25 am |
Daniel Bauer, Georgia State University |
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Adverse Selection in Secondary
Insurance Markets: Evidence from the Life Settlement Market |
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(with Jochen Russ and
Nan Zhu) |
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Discussant: Lauren Cohen, Harvard University and
NBER |
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10:35 am |
Break |
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10:50 am |
John Kiff, International
Monetary Fund |
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Longevity Risk
Transfer Markets: Market Structure, Growth Drivers and Impediments, and
Potential Risks (supporting paper) |
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(with Michael Kisser) |
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Discussant: Robert Pozen,
Harvard University |
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12:00 n |
Thomas Davidoff, University of British Columbia |
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Do
Reverse Mortgage Borrowers Use Credit Ruthlessly (with Jake
Wetzel) |
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Justin Gallagher, Case Western University |
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Underwater?
Household Finance and Migration Decisions after a Flood: The Case of
Hurricane Katrina |
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(with Daniel Hartley) |
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1:30 pm |
Lunch and adjourn |