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World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress

Concurrent Session VI

Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 1:30 PM - 3 PM

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 6A
Actuarial Science and Insurance Finance II

Moderator: Krzysztof Ostaszewski, Illinois State U

 

Author

Affiliation

Paper Title

Discussant

Affiliation

ARIA

Martin Grace and Tyler Leverty

Georgia State U

Property-Liability Insurer Reserve Error: Motive, Manipulation or Mistake

Krzysztof Ostaszewski

Illinois State U

EGRIE

Maria Isabel Barao, Ser-Huang Poon, and Jonathan Tawn

Manchester Business School

A Dynamic and Multivariate Model for Risk Management and Prediction

Jose Penalva

IAE, CSIC

APRIA

Zinoviy Landsman and Michael Sherris

U of Haifa, and U of New South Wales

An Insurance and Asset Pricing Model for Non-normal Distributions and Incomplete Markets

Ser-Huang Poon

Manchester Business School

 
Session 6B
Agency Theory II

Moderator: Cassandra Cole, Florida State U

 

Author

Affiliation

Paper Title

Discussant

Affiliation

ARIA

Bum Kim

California State U, Bakersfield

Informational Asymmetry, Differential Compensation, and Imperfect Message in Demutualization

Piman Limpaphayom

Chulalongkorn U

ARIA

Nobuko Aoba

Naruto U of Education

The Strategic Role of Information in Insurance Markets: A Vertical Integration Model

Paul Thistle

U of Nevada-Las Vegas

ARIA

Joe Ruhland and David Sommer

U of Georgia

Information Asymmetry and Corporate Governance in the Property-Liability Insurance Industry

Bum Kim

California State U Bakersfield

 
Session 6C
Catastrophe Risk

Moderator: David Cummins, U of Pennsylvania

 

Author

Affiliation

Paper Title

Discussant

Affiliation

ARIA

Carolyn W. Chang, Jack S.K. Chang, and WeiLi Lu

California State University at Los Angeles, and California State University at Fullerton

Pricing Catastrophe Insurance Derivatives in a Subordinated Binomial Tree

Andreas Milidonis

Georgia State U

ARIA

Yves Schneider and Peter Zweifel  

U of Zurich  

How Much Internalization of Nuclear Risk Through Liability Insurance  

Anne Kleffner

U of Calgary

ARIA

Xuanjuan Chen, Helen Doerpinghaus, BingXuan Lin, and Tong Yu  

U of North Carolina at Wilmington, U of South Carolina, and U of Rhode Island

Catastrophic Losses and Insurer Profitability: Evidence from 9/11  

Faith Neale

U of North Carolina at Charlotte

 
Session 6D
Insurance Brokerage

Moderator: Henry Chiu, U of Manchester

 

Author

Affiliation

Paper Title

Discussant

Affiliation

EGRIE

Michael Sonnenholzner

U of Erlangen-Nuernberg

Insurance Brokers and Advice Quality

Peter Maas

U of St. Gallen

ARIA

Peter Maas

U of St. Gallen

How Insurance Brokers Create Value: A Functional Approach

Michael Sonnenholzner

U of Erlangen-Nuernberg

EGRIE

Neil Doherty and Alex Muermann

U of Pennsylvania

Brokers and the Insurance of Non-verifiable Losses

Larry Tzeng

National Taiwan U

 
Session 6E
Insurance Economics V

Moderator: Pierre Picard, Universite Paris X - Nanterre

 

Author

Affiliation

Paper Title

Discussant

Affiliation

EGRIE

Christian Laux

Goethe U Frankfurt

Multiline Insurance and Securitization: Bundling Risks to Reduce Moral Hazard

Harris Schlesinger

U of Alabama and U of Konstanz

APRIA

Ziyou Yu and Wu Jianjun

Shanghai U of Finance and Economics

The Kuznets Hypothesis for the Income Elasticity of Insurance Demand and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis of the World Insurance Market

Puneet Prakash

Georgia State U

EGRIE

Stein-Erik Fleten and Snorre Lindset

Norwegian U of Science and Technology

Optimal Hedging Strategies for Multi-period Guarantees in the Presence of Transaction Costs: A Stochastic Programming Approach

Svein-Arne Persson

Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

 
Session 6F
Insurance Finance II

Moderator: Bill Panning, Willis Re

 

Author

Affiliation

Paper Title

Discussant

Affiliation

EGRIE

Francesco Natale and Emma Zavarrone

Bicocca U

Testing for Risk Sensitivity in the European Insurance Industry: Empirical Evidence from Subordinated Debt Issues

Richard Phillips

Georgia State U

ARIA

Qiang Liu and Karen Epermanis

U of Mississippi