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Presentation Guideline. Each session room is equipped with an overhead projector and an LCD projector linked to a laptop computer. If you plan to use the LCD projector, bring your presentation on either a USB flash drive or CD-rom so that you can access it using the laptop computer that will be provide in your session room. The computer does not have a floppy disk drive. Please refrain yourself from using your own computer. If you plan to use an overhead projector, bring your transparencies to the room. You may also purchase service from the Sheraton Business Center (open 7 am to 7 pm) or a nearby Kinko's (open 24 hours). For effective use of your presentation time, bring 25 copies of handouts. |
Actuarial Science and Insurance Finance I
Moderator: Jochen Russ, Institut für Finanz- und Aktuarwissenschaften
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Author |
Affiliation |
Paper Title |
Discussant |
Affiliation |
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EGRIE |
Kristian Miltersen and
Svein-Arne
Persson |
Norwegian School of Economics and
Business Administration |
Is Mortality Dead? |
Jean Pinquet |
Universite Paris X - Nanterre |
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ARIA |
Changsoo Lee |
Soongsil U and Inje U |
Risk Diversifications in Reserve
Valuation: The Case of the Korean Life Insurance Industry |
Chenghsien Tsai |
National Chengchi U |
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APRIA |
Chenghsien Tsai, Weiyu Kuo, and Derek Mi-Hsiu Chiang |
National Chengchi U |
The Distributions of Policy
Reserves Considering the Policy-year Structures of Surrender Rates
and Expense Ratios |
Stephen P. D'Arcy |
U of Illinois |
Corporate Risk Management I
Moderator: Larry Cox, U of Mississippi
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Author |
Affiliation |
Paper Title |
Discussant |
Affiliation |
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APRIA |
J. Thomas Connelly, Piman
Limpaphayom, and Thanomsak Suwannoi |
Chulalongkorn University and CelestialBusiness |
Are Insurance Firms Exposed to Foreign Exchange Rate Fluctuations? Evidence from Insurers in the Asia-Pacific |
Christian Thomann |
U of Hannover |
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APRIA |
Yung-Ming Shiu and Yi-Cheng Shin |
Tunghai U |
Derivatives Usage by Taiwanese
Financial Firms |
David Sommer |
U of Georgia |
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Efficiency Analysis II
Moderator: Gilles Bernier, Laval U
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Author |
Affiliation |
Paper Title |
Discussant |
Affiliation |
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ARIA |
David Eckles |
Georgia Southern U |
Technical and Scale Efficiency in
the Thai Non-life Insurance Industry |
Yijia Lin |
Georgia State U |
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APRIA |
James C. Hao |
Tamkang U |
Comparison of Economic Efficiency
Estimation Methods: An Application to Taiwan’s Life Insurance
Industry |
B. Paul Choi |
Howard U |
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ARIA |
Lars Powell, David Eckles, and
David Sommer |
U of Arkansas at Little Rock |
Internal Capital Market
Efficiency within Financial Conglomerates: Evidence from
Property-Liability Insurance Groups |
Andre Liebenberg |
Old Dominion U |
Healthcare Economics I
Moderator:
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Author |
Affiliation |
Paper Title |
Discussant |
Affiliation |
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EGRIE |
Christophe Courbage and Béatrice
Rey |
The Geneva Association |
Prudence and Optimal Prevention
for Health Risks |
Emilio Venezian |
Rutgers U |
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EGRIE |
Rod Garatt and John Marshall |
U of California, Santa Barbara |
Treatment of Illnesses under
Copayment Insurance |
Peter Zweifel |
U of Zurich |
Insurance Economics III
Moderator: Art Snow, U of Georgia
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Author |
Affiliation |
Paper Title |
Discussant |
Affiliation |
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EGRIE |
Michael Breuer |
U of Zurich |
Optimal Insurance Contracts
without the Non-negativity Constraint on Indemnities: Revisited |
Pierre Picard |
Universite Paris X - Nanterre |
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ARIA |
Peter S. Faynzilberg |
The Aleph Group, LLC |
Competitive Insurance Markets |
Mahito Okura |
Nagasaki U |
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APRIA |
Richard MacMinn |
Graduate School of Management,
KAIST |
Distribution of Price and Quality
under Information Asymmetry |
Achim Wambach |
U of Erlangen-Nuernberg |
Pensions III
Moderator: David Richardson, Georgia State U
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Author |
Affiliation |
Paper Title |
Discussant |
Affiliation |
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ARIA |
James Carson and Randy E. Dumm |
Florida State U |
Price Indicia in the Individual
Annuity Market |
Jennifer Wang |
National Cheng-chi U |
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APRIA |
Wonshik Kim |
Konkuk U |
The
Corporate Pension System in Korea: Limits and Prospects |
Hunsoo Kim |
SoonChunHyang U |
Risk Analysis
Moderator: Christian Gollier, U of Toulouse
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Author |
Affiliation |
Paper Title |
Discussant |
Affiliation |
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APRIA |
Madhu Vij and Gunjan Sanjeev |
U of Delhi and Institute for Integrated Learning and Management |