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World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress

Concurrent Session IV

Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 8:30 AM - 10 AM

Tentative as of 5 July 2005

 

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.

 
Session 4A
Actuarial Science, Life Insurance and Mortality

Moderator: Pat Brockett, U of Texas at Austin

 

Author

Affiliation

Paper Title

Discussant

Affiliation

APRIA

Yijia Lin, and Samuel H. Cox

Georgia State U

Mortality Securitization Modeling

Pat Brockett

U of Texas at Austin

ARIA

Richard MacMinn, Krzysztof Ostaszewski, Ranee Thiagarajah, and Jan Frederik Weber

Illinois State U

Mortality Improvement Select Birth Cohorts and Their Effect on Pricing of Survival Bonds

Richard Butler

Brigham Young U

EGRIE

Antoine Delwarde, Michel Denuit, Guillen Montserrat, and Antoni Vidiella

U Catholique de Louvain and U of Barcelona

Application of the Poisson Log-bilinear Projection Model to the G5 Mortality Experience

Emma Zavarrone

Bicocca U, Milan, Italy

 
Session 4B
Corporate Risk Management II

Moderator: Martin Boyer, HEC Montréal and CIRANO

 

Author

Affiliation

Paper Title

Discussant

Affiliation

ARIA

Andre Liebenberg and David Sommer

Old Dominion U and U of Georgia

Effects of Corporate Diversification: Evidence from the Property-Liability Insurance Industry

Yayuan Ren

U of Wisconsin at Madison

ARIA

J. François Outreville

UNCTAD

Players and Driving Forces in World Insurance Services

Xinyu Li

Peking U

ARIA

Yayuan Ren

U of Wisconsin at Madison

Insurer Risk-taking Strategies in Industry Equilibrium

Michael Sherris

U of New South Wales

 
Session 4C
Healthcare Economics II

Moderator: Mark Browne, U of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Author

Affiliation

Paper Title

Discussant

Affiliation

ARIA

Patricia Born, W. Kip Viscusi, and Tom Baker

California State U at Northridge, Harvard Law School, and U of Connecticut School of Law

Tort Reform in the Long Run: An Analysis of the Lasting Effects of Reform Activity on Medical Malpractice Insurance Profitability and Cyclical Performance

Steven Pottier

U of Georgia at Athens

ARIA

Yu Lei

U of Hartford

Effects of Cost-Sharing in Employer-sponsored Health Insurance on Employees’ Use of Health Care and Health

Helen Doerpinghaus

U of South Carolina

EGRIE

Karolin Becker and Peter Zweifel

U of Zurich

Age and Choice in Health Insurance: Evidence from Switzerland

Carlo Savino

Associazione Nazionale fra le Imprese Assicuratrici

 
Session 4D
Insurance Economics IV

Moderator: Thomas Russell, Santa Clara U

 

Author

Affiliation

Paper Title

Discussant

Affiliation

APRIA

Wondon Lee

Daegu U, Korea

Costly State Verification by a Claimant

Saleem Shaik

Mississippi State U

EGRIE

Arthur Snow

U of Georgia

On the Possibility of Profitable Self-selection Contracts in Competitive Insurance Markets

Keith H. Coble

Mississippi State U

ARIA

Paul Thistle and James Ligon

U of Nevada-Las Vegas and U of Alabama

Moral Hazard and Background Risk in Competitive Insurance Markets

Arthur Snow

U of Georgia

 
Session 4E
Life Insurance III

Moderator: Mike Adams,  U of Wales, Swansea

 

Author

Affiliation

Paper Title

Discussant

Affiliation

ARIA

Helmut Gruendl, Thomas Post, and Roman Schulze

Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin

To Hedge or not to Hedge: Managing Demographic Risk in Life Insurance Companies

Shih-Chieh Chang

National Chengchi U

APRIA

Robert W. Cooper, Bong-Joo Lee,  Kyung-Lyong Lee, and Han-Duck Lee

Drake U, Kyung Hee U, Sogang U, and Hongik U

A Cross-cultural Comparison of the Ethical Environments of the U.S. and South Korean Life Insurance Markets

Harold Skipper

Georgia State U

 
Session 4F
Pensions IV

Moderator: Jack Marshall, University of California - Santa Barbara

 

Author

Affiliation

Paper Title

Discussant

Affiliation

APRIA

Seungryul Ma and Deokho Cho

Daegu U

A Lifetime Housing Asset Plan Using Mortgage and Reverse Mortgage Finance in Korea

Cassandra Cole

Florida State U

APRIA

R. Vaidyanathan

Indian Institute of Management

Pension Reforms and Capital Market Developments in India

Byung In Lim

National Pension Research Institute

APRIA

Sung-ho Kang and Byung In Lim

National Pension Research Institute and Andong National U

The Crowding-out Effect of the Public Pension on the Private Savings by Income Classes in Korea

Marie-Eve Lachance