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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Insurance Working Group Meeting

Liran Einav and Ken Froot, Organizers

February 19-20, 2015

SIEPR

Stanford University
366 Galvez Street

Stanford, CA

 

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, February 19

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30 am

Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Does The Samaritan’s Dilemma Matter? Evidence from U.S. Agriculture  (with Barrett Kirwan)

 

 

 

Discussant: Kent Smetters, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

9:15 am

Jonathan Kolstad, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Consumer Heterogeneity and Medical Care Price Responsiveness: Evidence and Implications for Optimal Insurance Design

(with Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Amitabh Chandra, and Ben Handel)

 

 

 

Discussant: Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Melon University and NBER

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

George Zanjani, Georgia State University

 

The Marginal Cost of Risk and Capital Allocation in a Multi-Period Model

(with Daniel Bauer)

 

 

 

Discussant: Thomas Russell, Santa Clara University

 

 

11:15 am

Amanda Kowalski, Yale University and NBER

What Do Longitudinal Data on Millions of Hospital Visits Tell us About The Value of Public Health Insurance as a Safety Net for the Young and Privately Insured?

 

 

Discussant: Matthew Notowidigdo, Northwestern University and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

Daniel Gottlieb, University of Pennsylvania

 

Perfect Competition in Markets with Adverse Selection  

(with Eduardo Azevedo)

 

 

 

Discussant: Florian Scheuer, Stanford University and NBER 

 

 

2:30 pm

Break

 

 

2:45 pm

Marika Cabral, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

 

Does Privatized Health Insurance Benefit Patients or Producers? Evidence from Medicare Advantage  

(with Michael Geruso and Neale Mahoney)

 

 

 

Discussant: Michael Chernew, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

3:45 pm

Break

 

 

4:00 pm

Justin Sydnor, University of Wisconsin, Choose to Lose? Employee Health-Plan Decisions from a Menu with Dominated Options

(with Saurabh Bhargava and George Loewenstein)

 

 

 

Sebastian Soika, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

On the Demand Effects of Rate Regulation - Evidence from a Natural Experiment  (with Johannes Jaspersen and Andreas Richter)

 

 

 

Discussant: Ben Handel, University of California at  Berkeley and NBER

 

 

6:00 pm

Group dinner

Il Fornaio Restaurant, 520 Cowper Street

(at the Garden Court Hotel), Palo Alto

 

 

Friday, February 20

 

 

(Joint session with NBER Industrial Organization Meeting, co-organized with Michael Dickstein and Ali Hortacsu)

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30 am

Stephen Ryan, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

 

The Welfare Effects of Supply-Side Regulations in Medicare Part D

(with Francesco Decarolis and Maria Polyakova)

 

 

 

Discussant: Mark Duggan, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

9:30 am

Coffee break

 

 

9:45 am

Neale Mahoney, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Imperfect Competition in Selection Markets  

(with Glen Weyl)

 

 

 

Discussant: Tim Bresnahan, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

10:45 am

Coffee break

 

 

11:00 am

Elisabeth Honka, University of Texas at Dallas

 

Simultaneous or Sequential? Search Strategies in the U.S. Auto Insurance

Industry

(with Pradeep Chintagunta)

 

 

 

Discussant: Jean-François Houde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch and adjourn of NBER Insurance Meeting

 

(NBER IO Meeting continues)