2008 Proceedings

1. Legal Errors and Liability Insurance
   Vickie Bajtelsmit, Colorado State University
   Paul Thistle, University of Nevada Las Vegas

2. Competition among rating agencies and information disclosure
   Neil A. Doherty, University of Pennsylvania
   Anastasia Kartasheva, University of Pennsylvania
   Richard D. Phillips, Georgia State University    

3. Catastrophe Insurance and Optimal Investment
   Sheen Liu, Washington State University, Vancouver
   Gene Lai, Washington State University, Pullman

4. Optimal Sharing of Labor Productivity Risks and Mix of Pay-As-You-Go and Savings
   Debora Kusmerski, University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute

5. Actuarial Applications of a Hierarchical Insurance Claims Model
   Edward W. Frees, University of Wisconsin
   Peng Shi, University of Wisconsin
   Emiliano A. Valdez, University of Connecticut

6. Crowding Out under Medicaid’s Presumptive Eligibility
   Richard J. Butler, Brigham Young University
   William G. Johnson, Arizona State University

7. Optimal Capital Allocation
   George Zanjani, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

8. The Impact of Individual Investment Behavior for Retirement Welfare: Evidence from the U.S. and Germany
   Thomas Post, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
   Helmut Gründl, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
   Joan T. Schmit, University of Wisconsin
   Anja Zimmer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

9. Costly External Financing and the Capital Shock Theory of the Insurance Cycle
   S. Hun Seog, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
   Sunae Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

10. Financial Integration and Scope Efficiency post Gramm-Leach-Bliley
    Yuan Yuan, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
    Richard D. Phillips, Georgia State University