Program for the 1995 Risk Theory Seminar

Friday, April 28 -- Sunday, April 30

Friday, April 28
6:00-6:30                    Informal Reception                                           
                                                                                        
6:30-7:45                    N.A. Doherty and H. Schlesinger                               
                            "Mitigating Correlated Risks: Are Two Markets Better than   
                            One?"                                                        
                                                                                        
7:45-9:00                    Richard J. Butler, Harold Gardner and Delworth Gardner      
                            "Welfare Dependence in Workers Compensation: Do Past         
                            Claims Cause Future Claims?"                                 

Saturday, April 29
8:30-9:45                    L. Lee Colquitt and Robert E. Hoyt                           
                            "Determinants of Corporate Hedging Behavior: Evidence from  
                            the Life Insurance Industry"                                 
9:45-10:00                   Break                                                        
                                                                                        
10:00-11:15                  G. Dionne, R. Gagné, F. Gagnon and C. Vanasse                
                            "Debt, Moral Hazard and Airline Safety: an Empirical         
                            Evidence"                                                    
11:15-12:30                  Kathy R. Petroni and Douglas A. Shackelford                  
                            "Taxation, Regulation, and the Organizational Structure of  
                            Property-Casualty Insurers"                                  
12:30-1:30                   Lunch                                                        
                                                                                        
1:30-2:45                    Louis Eeckhoudt, Jack Meyer and Michael B. Ormiston          
                            "The Interaction Between the Demand for Insurance and        
                            Insurable Assets"                                            
2:45-4:00                    Anja De Waegenaere                                           
                            "Equilibria in a Mixed financial-Reinsurance Market with    
                            Constrained Trading Possibilities"                           
4:00-5:00                    Business Meeting                                             

Sunday, April 30

9:00-10:15                   Anne Gron                                                    
                            "Collusion, Costs or Capacity? Evaluating Theories of       
                            Insurance Cycles"                                            
10:15-11:30                  Allen N. Berger, J. David Cummins and Mary A. Weiss          
                            "The Coexistence of Alternative Product Distribution         
                            Systems: The Case of Property-Liability Insurance"