Insurance Working Group Meeting
Benjamin R. Handel and Motohiro Yogo, Organizers
February 8-9, 2019
SIEPR-Gunn Building, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA
| Friday, February 8 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| Morning sessions will be held jointly with the Industrial Organization Program (Room 130) | ||||
| 25 minutes author, 20 minutes discussant, 15 minutes audience | ||||
| 9:00 am |
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford University and NBER Michael J. Dickstein, New York University and NBER Timothy McQuade, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER Take-Up, Drop-Out, and Spending in ACA Marketplaces
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:15 am |
Keaton S. Miller, University of Oregon Amil Petrin, University of Minnesota and NBER Robert Town, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Michael Chernew, Harvard University and NBER Optimal Managed Competition Subsidies
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| 11:15 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
Gaston Illanes, Northwestern University and NBER Manisha Padi, University of California at Berkeley Competition, Asymmetric Information, and the Annuity Puzzle: Evidence from a Government-run Exchange in Chile
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| Insurance Meeting continues (Lucas Room) | ||||
| 1:30 pm |
David Schoenherr, Princeton University Janis Skrastins, Washington University in St Louis Bernadus Doornik, Banco Central do Brasil Unemployment Insurance, Strategic Unemployment, and Firm-Worker Collusion
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 2:45 pm |
Robin Greenwood, Harvard University and NBER Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Federal Reserve Board of Governors and NBER The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves
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| 3:45 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Andrew Ellul, Indiana University Anastasia Kartasheva, University of St. Gallen Chotibhak Jotikasthira, Southern Methodist University Christian Lundblad, University of North Carolina Wolf Wagner, Erasmus University Insurers as Asset Managers and Systemic Risk
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| 5:00 pm | Adjoun | |||
| 6:00 pm | Group Dinner - Indo Restaurant, 3295 El Camino Real, Palo Alto | |||
| Saturday, February 9 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| 8:30 am |
Radek Paluszynski, University of Houston Pei Cheng Yu, University of New South Wales Pay What Your Dad Paid: Commitment and Price Rigidity in the Market for Life Insurance
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| 9:30 am | Break | |||
| 9:45 am |
Juan Pablo Atal, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Martin Karlsson, University of Duisburg-Essen Nicolas R. Ziebarth, ZEW Mannheim & U Mannheim Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence
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| 10:45 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Michael Geruso, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Timothy Layton, University of Virginia and NBER Grace McCormack, University of Southern California Mark Shepard, Harvard University and NBER The Two Margin Problem in Insurance Markets
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| 12:00 n | Adjourn | |||