NBER Insurance Working Group meeting
Organized by Liran Einav, Kenneth A. Froot, Brian G. Knight, and Amy Finkelstein
April 5-6, 2013
NBER
Friday, April 5
1

Health Insurance for Humans: Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare

Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jonathan T. Kolstad, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2

How Product Standardization Affects Choice: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange

Keith Marzilli Ericson, Boston University and NBER
Amanda Starc, Northwestern University and NBER
3

Complexity as a Barrier to Annuitization: Do Consumers Know How to Value Annuities?

Jeffrey R. Brown, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Arie Kapteyn, University of Southern California and NBER
Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Dartmouth College and NBER
Olivia S. Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
4

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

Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
5

Equilibrium with Monoline and Multiline Insurers

Dwight Jaffee, University of California, Berkeley
Johan Walden, University of California, Berkeley
Rustam Ibragimov
6

The Cost of Financial Frictions for Life Insurers

Ralph Koijen, University of Chicago and NBER
Motohiro Yogo, Princeton University and NBER