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