Universities Research Conference
Organized by Howard Kunreuther, Kenneth A. Froot, and Erwann Michel-Kerjan
May 11-12, 2012
Le Méridien Cambridge-MIT

Friday, May 11

1

The Welfare Economics of Catastrophic Loss

Dwight Jaffee, University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Russell, Santa Clara University

2

On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks

Antony Millner, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER

3

The Role of Transfer Payments in Mitigating Shocks: Evidence from the Impact of Hurricanes

Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER

4

Social Networks and the Decision to Insure: Evidence from Randomized Experiments in China

Jing Cai, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER

5

Optimal Insurance with Counterparty Default Risk

Enrico Biffis, Imperial College London
Pietro Millossovich, City St George's, University of London

6

Inattention to Rare Events

Bartosz Mackowiak, European Central Bank
Mirko Wiederholt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

7

Copula-Based Models of Systemic Risk in U.S. Agriculture: Implications for Crop Insurance and Reinsurance Contracts

Barry Goodwin, North Carolina State University

8

Improving Catastrophe Modeling for Business Interruption Insurance Needs

Adam Rose, University of Southern California

9

The Financial Impact of Longevity Risk

S. Erik Oppers, International Monetary Fund
Ken Chikada, International Monetary Fund
Patrick A. Imam, International Monetary Fund
John Kiff Michael Kisser, Norwegian School of Economics

10

External Financing in the Life Insurance Industry: Evidence from the Financial Crisis

Thomas R. Berry-Stoelzle, University of Iowa
Greg Nini, Drexel University
Sabine Wende, University of Cologne