Insurance Working Group Meeting
Organized by Benjamin R. Handel and Motohiro Yogo
October 22, 2021
on Zoom.us
Friday, October 22
11:00 am

Hedging and Competition

Erasmo Giambona, Syracuse University
Anil Kumar, Aarhus University
Gordon M. Phillips, Dartmouth College and NBER

Discussant:
David S. Scharfstein, Harvard University and NBER
11:45 am

Pricing of Climate Risk Insurance: Regulatory Frictions and Cross-Subsidies

Sangmin Oh, Columbia University
Ishita Sen, Harvard University
Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva, Arizona State University

Discussant:
Katherine R.H. Wagner, University of British Columbia
12:30 pm
Break
1:00 pm

Dynamic Pricing Regulation and Welfare in Insurance Markets

Naoki Aizawa, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Ami Ko, Georgetown University

Discussant:
Daniel Gottlieb, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
1:45 pm

Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty — Evidence from Variable Annuities

Mark L. Egan, Harvard University and NBER
Shan Ge, New York University
Johnny Tang, Cornell University

Discussant:
Vivek Bhattacharya, Northwestern University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

The Effect of Insurance Telematics and Financial Penalties on Market-wide Moral Hazard

Marco Cosconati, Bank of Italy and IVASS

Discussant:
Yizhou Jin, University of Toronto
(this presentation will not be live-streamed and the paper is not available to download)
3:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, October 29
Joint with Public Economics
11:00 am

Reducing Ordeals through Automatic Enrollment: Evidence from a Health Insurance Exchange

Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER
Myles Wagner, The Ohio State University
11:40 am

Ambulance Taxis

Paul J. Eliason, University of Utah and NBER
Riley J. League, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Jetson Leder-Luis, Boston University and NBER
Ryan C. McDevitt, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
James W. Roberts, Duke University and NBER
12:20 pm
Break
12:40 pm
Lunch Talk
1:30 pm
Group discussions
2:10 pm
Break
2:30 pm

Rationing Medicine Through Bureaucracy: Authorization Restrictions in Medicare

Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg, University of Chicago and NBER
Samantha Burn, Harvard University
Timothy Layton, University of Virginia and NBER
Boris Vabson, Harvard University
3:10 pm

A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Abe Dunn, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Joshua D. Gottlieb, University of Chicago and NBER
Adam Shapiro, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Daniel J. Sonnenstuhl, University of Chicago
Pietro Tebaldi, Columbia University and NBER
3:50 pm
Break
4:10 pm

Firms and Unemployment Insurance Take-Up

Marta Lachowska, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Isaac Sorkin, Stanford University and NBER
Stephen A. Woodbury, Michigan State University
4:50 pm

Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for Financing Human Capital (slides)

Daniel Herbst, University of Arizona
Nathaniel Hendren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn