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Financial Economics of Insurance
Organized by Benjamin R. Handel, Ralph S. J. Koijen, and Motohiro Yogo
April 24, 2020
on Zoom.us
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Friday, April 24
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10:00 am
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Regulatory Forbearance in the U.S. Insurance Industry: The Effects of Eliminating Capital Requirements
Bo Becker, Stockholm School of Economics
Marcus Opp, Stockholm School of Economics
Farzad Saidi, University of Bonn
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10:30 am
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Internal Models, Make Believe Prices, and Bond Market Cornering
Ishita Sen, Harvard University
Varun Sharma, London Business School
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11:00 am
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Trust and Insurance Contracts
Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
Rafael La Porta, Brown University and NBER
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, SKEMA Business School and NBER
Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University and NBER
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11:30 am
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Break
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11:45 am
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Unemployment Insurance as a Subsidy to Risky Firms
David Schoenherr, Seoul National University
Janis Skrastins, University of Utah
Dimas M. Fazio, National University of Singapore
Bernadus Doornik, Banco Central do Brasil
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12:15 pm
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The Effect of Political Frictions on Long-term Care Insurance
(slides)
Weiling Liu, Northeastern University
Jessica Liu, Cornerstone Consulting
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12:45 pm
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Panel Discussion, The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Insurance Sector (slides)
Mohamed Baccouche, AXA Group Chief Actuary
Jerome Haegeli, Swiss Re Group Chief Economist (slides)
Thomas Wilson, Allianz Chief Risk Officer (slides) |
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1:45 pm
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Break
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Data analytics and insurance markets
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2:00 pm
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The Value of Ignoring Risk: Competition between Better Informed Insurers
(slides)
Laura Abrardi, Politecnico di Torino
Luca V. A. Colombo, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Piero Tedeschi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
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2:30 pm
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Inverse Selection
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER
Rohit Lamba, Pennsylvania State University
Carlos Segura-Rodriguez, Banco Central de Costa Rica
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3:00 pm
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Government Advertising in Market-Based Public Programs: Evidence from the Health Insurance Marketplace
Naoki Aizawa, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
You Suk Kim, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
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3:30 pm
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Break
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3:45 pm
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Buying Data from Consumers: The Impact of Monitoring Programs in U.S. Auto Insurance
Yizhou Jin, University of Toronto
Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University and NBER
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Climate change and insurance markets
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4:15 pm
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Mortgage Markets with Climate-Change Risk: Evidence from Wildfires in California
Richard Stanton, University of California, Berkeley
Carles Vergara-Alert, University of Navarra
Nancy Wallace, University of California, Berkeley
Paulo Issler, University of California, Berkeley
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4:45 pm
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Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance
Katherine R.H. Wagner, University of British Columbia
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5:15 pm
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Adjourn
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