SSRN Wharton School: Business Economics & Public Policy (Topic)

1.

Statement on Prediction Markets

AEI-Brookings Joint Center Related Publication No. 07-11

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 07 May 2007

Working Paper Series

Stanford University - Department of Economics, Yale University - School of Management, University of South Florida - College of Business, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., Dartmouth College, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, Smith School, George Mason University, Princeton University, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Chicago Law School, Stanford University, University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business - Department of Economics, University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business - Department of Economics, Bocconi University - Department of Economics, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Maryland, Yale University - Cowles Foundation, Chapman University - Economic Science Institute, Independent, Harvard Law School, Columbia Business School - Finance, University of California, Berkeley - Organizational Behavior & Industrial Relations Group, University of California, Berkeley - School of Information and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics

Downloads 3,707

2.

Productivity and Efficiency in Insurance: An Overview of the Issues

96-57

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 06 May 1997

Working Paper Series

Douglas O. Cook and J David Cummins

University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration and Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science

Downloads 2,644

3.

Financial Literacy and Planning: Implications for Retirement Wellbeing

Michigan Retirement Research Center Research Paper No. WP 2005-108

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Feb 2008

Working Paper Series

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell

George Washington University - Department of Accountancy and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,537

4.

Lessons from Behavioral Finance for Retirement Plan Design

PRC Working Paper No. 2003-6

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Nov 2003

Working Paper Series

Olivia S. Mitchell and Stephen P. Utkus

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 2,387

5.

Derivatives and Corporate Risk Management: Participation and Volume Decisions in the Insurance Industry

Forthcoming

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 May 1998 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2018

Accepted Paper Series

J David Cummins, Richard D. Phillips and Stephen D. Smith

Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science, Georgia State University - Risk Management & Insurance Department and (Deceased)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,325

6.

Financial Literacy and Retirement Planning: New Evidence from the Rand American Life Panel

Michigan Retirement Research Center Research Paper No. WP 2007-157

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 22 Feb 2008

Working Paper Series

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell

George Washington University - Department of Accountancy and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

Downloads 2,110

7.

Do Payday Loans Cause Bankruptcy?

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-13

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2011

Working Paper Series

Paige Marta Skiba and Jeremy Tobacman

Vanderbilt University - Law School and Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware

Downloads 2,089

8.

Economics of Net Neutrality: A Review

Communications & Convergence Review, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 53-64, 2011

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 25 Jul 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Gerald R. Faulhaber

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School

Downloads 1,711

9.

CAT Bonds and Other Risk-Linked Securities: State of the Market and Recent Developments

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 07 Dec 2007

Working Paper Series

J David Cummins

Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science

Downloads 1,614

10.

Payday Loans, Uncertainty and Discounting: Explaining Patterns of Borrowing, Repayment, and Default

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-33

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 24 Dec 2008

Working Paper Series

Paige Marta Skiba and Jeremy Tobacman

Vanderbilt University - Law School and Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware

Downloads 1,595

11.

Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 58, December 2005

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Dec 2005

Accepted Paper Series

John J. Donohue and Justin Wolfers

Stanford Law School and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics

There are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,592

12.

Net Neutrality Regulation: The Economic Evidence

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2013

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Independent, University of Warwick - Warwick Business School, Brookings Institution, The American Consumer Institute, ESC Company, NERA Economic Consulting, George Washington University - Regulatory Studies Center, University of Wollongong - SMART Infrastructure Facility, Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, University of Oxford, Smith School, National Economic Research Associates Inc. (NERA) (Deceased), Francisco Marroquin University, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., University of Virginia School of Law, Economists Incorporated, Chapman University - Economic Science Institute, Marsh & McLennan Companies - Cambridge Office, Advanced Analytical Consulting Group, Inc., London Business School and Kansas State University - Department of Economics

Downloads 1,416

13.

Prediction Markets

Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1854

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 30 Jun 2004

Working Paper Series

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and Dartmouth College

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,412

14.

Consolidation in the European Insurance Industry: Do Mergers and Acquisitions Create Value for Shareholders?

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 01 Jul 2004

Working Paper Series

J David Cummins and Mary A. Weiss

Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science and Temple University

Downloads 1,408

15.

Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5(1), 104-35, Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 09-116, FRB of New York Staff Report No. 373

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 09 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Shawn Allen Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Robert M. Townsend, Petia B. Topalova and James I. Vickery

Harvard Business School, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Federal Reserve Bank of New York

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,392

16.

Financial Literacy and Retirement Preparedness: Evidence and Implications for Financial Education Programs

Michigan Retirement Research Center Research Paper No. WP 2006-144

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Jan 2007

Working Paper Series

Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell

George Washington University - Department of Accountancy and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

Downloads 1,356

17.

Information or Persuasion? An Empirical Investigation of the Effect of Advertising on Brand Awareness and Perceived Quality Using Panel Data

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 1971

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Aug 2007

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Ulrich Doraszelski, C. Robert Clark and Michaela Draganska

Harvard University - Department of Economics, HEC Montreal and Drexel University

Downloads 1,322

18.

The Market Value Impact of Operational Risk Events for U.S. Banks and Insurers

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 04 Jan 2005

Working Paper Series

J David Cummins, Christopher M. Lewis and Ran Wei

Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science, The Hartford and University of Pennsylvania - Insurance & Risk Management Department

Downloads 1,282

19.

Regulation of Charlatans in High-Skill Professions

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 17-43

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 04 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2017

Working Paper Series

Jonathan Berk and Jules H. van Binsbergen

Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,162

20.

The Costs and Benefits of Reinsurance

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Jun 2008

Working Paper Series

J David Cummins, Georges Dionne, Robert Gagné and Abdelhakim Nouira

Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science, HEC Montreal - Department of Finance, HEC Montreal - Institute of Applied Economics and HEC Montreal - Department of Finance

Downloads 1,134

21.

Disagreement About Inflation Expectations

Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 2011; Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 03-36; GOBI Research Paper No. 1807

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 19 Jun 2003

Working Paper Series

N. Gregory Mankiw, Ricardo Reis and Justin Wolfers

Harvard University - Department of Economics, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,129

22.

Supreme Court Amicus Brief of Professors and Scholars in Law and Economics in Support of Certiorari, Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. linkLine Communications, Inc., No. 07-512 (filed Nov. 16, 2007)

U.S. Supreme Court

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 23 May 2012

Working Paper Series

William J. Baumol, Robert H. Bork, Robert W. Crandall, George Daly, Harold Demsetz, Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Kenneth G. Elzinga, Gerald R. Faulhaber, Franklin M. Fisher, Charles John Goetz, Robert W. Hahn, Jerry A. Hausman, Thomas Jorde, Robert E. Litan, Paul W. MacAvoy, J. Gregory Sidak, Pablo T. Spiller and Daniel F. Spulber

New York University - Stern School of Business, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Independent, Brookings Institution, Georgetown University - Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, NERA Economic Consulting, University of Virginia - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, University of Virginia - School of Law, University of Oxford, Smith School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., Yale School of Management (Deceased), Criterion Economics, L.L.C., University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

Downloads 1,103

23.

What Do Financial Markets Think of War in Iraq?

Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1785

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Apr 2003

Working Paper Series

Andrew Leigh, Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

Australian National University - Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and Dartmouth College

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,001

24.

Convergence of Insurance and Financial Markets: Hybrid and Securitized Risk Transfer Solutions

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 01 Sep 2008

Working Paper Series

J David Cummins and Mary A. Weiss

Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science and Temple University

Downloads 958

25.

Cat Bonds and Other Risk-Linked Securities: Product Design and Evolution of the Market

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

J David Cummins

Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science

Downloads 913

26.

Did Unilateral Divorce Laws Raise Divorce Rates? A Reconciliation and New Results

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 264; Stanford Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 68

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Sep 2003

Working Paper Series

Justin Wolfers

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 829

27.

Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: Divorce Laws and Family Distress

Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 273; Stanford Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 73

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Dec 2003

Working Paper Series

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 806

28.

Economists' Statement on U.S. Broadband Policy

AEI-Brookings Joint Center Working Paper No. 06-06-01

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 23 Mar 2006

Working Paper Series

New York University - Stern School of Business, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of Pennsylvania - Business & Public Policy Department, Institute for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., University of Maryland - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, University of Oxford, Smith School, Hoover Institution and Department of Economics, Stanford University, Clemson University, National Economic Research Associates Inc. (NERA) (Deceased), Georgetown University - Department of Strategy/Economics/Ethics/Public Policy, Stanford University, New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Georgetown University, University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group, University of California, Berkeley - School of Information, Technology Policy Institute, Kansas State University - Department of Economics and Institute for Business Innovation

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29.

Does Uncertainty Matter? Consumer Behaviour Under Three-Part Tariffs

Marketing Science, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 698-710, September-October 2007

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 May 2006 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Anja Lambrecht, Katja Seim and Bernd Skiera

London Business School, University of Pennsylvania and University of Frankfurt - Department of Marketing

Downloads 752

30.

Information Effect of Entry into Credit Ratings Market: The Case of Insurers' Ratings

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 106, No. 2, 2012

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Neil A. Doherty, Anastasia V. Kartasheva and Richard D. Phillips

University of Pennsylvania - Insurance & Risk Management Department, International Association of Insurance Supervisors, c/o Bank for International Settlements and Georgia State University - Risk Management & Insurance Department

Downloads 749

31.

Are Voters Rational? Evidence from Gubernatorial Elections

Stanford GSB Working Paper No. 1730

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Apr 2002

Working Paper Series

Justin Wolfers

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics

Downloads 729

32.

The Incentive Effects of No Fault Automobile Insurance

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 12 Apr 2001

Working Paper Series

J David Cummins, Mary A. Weiss and Richard D. Phillips

Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science, Temple University and Georgia State University - Risk Management & Insurance Department

Downloads 696

33.

The Asian Miracle and Modern Growth Theory

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1881

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

Working Paper Series

Howard Pack and Richard R. Nelson

University of Pennsylvania - Management Department and Columbia University - School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA)

Downloads 681

34.

Winners and Losers: 401(K) Trading and Portfolio Performance

Pension Research Council Working Paper No. 2006-26, Michigan Retirement Research Center Research Paper No. WP 2007-154

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Nov 2006

Working Paper Series

Takeshi Yamaguchi, Olivia S. Mitchell, Gary R. Mottola and Stephen P. Utkus

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Research Director FINRA Foundation and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 681

35.

Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from the Spanish Insurance Industry

Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Paper No. 02-01

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 17 Feb 2002

Working Paper Series

J David Cummins and María Rubio-Misas

Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science and University of Malaga - Finance & Accounting

Downloads 665

36.

Systemic Risk and the U.S. Insurance Sector

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 15 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2014

Working Paper Series

J David Cummins and Mary A. Weiss

Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science and Temple University

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 632

37.

Assessing Competition in U.S. Wireless Markets: Review of the FCC’s Competition Reports

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 07 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2014

Working Paper Series

Gerald R. Faulhaber, Robert W. Hahn and Hal J. Singer

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, University of Oxford, Smith School and Economists Incorporated

Downloads 580

38.

The Case for Industrial Policy: A Critical Survey

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3839

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

Working Paper Series

Howard Pack and Kamal Saggi

University of Pennsylvania - Management Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Department of Economics

Downloads 553

39.

Three Tools for Forecasting Federal Elections: Lessons from 2001

Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1723

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Apr 2002

Working Paper Series

Justin Wolfers and Andrew Leigh

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and Australian National University - Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences

Downloads 550

40.

Mergers & Acquisitions in the U.S. Property-Liability Insurance Industry: Productivity and Efficiency Effects

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 05 Jul 2007

Working Paper Series

J David Cummins and Xiaoying Xie

Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science and California State University, Fullerton

Downloads 546

41.

Hedge the Hedgers: Usage of Reinsurance and Derivatives by Property and Casualty Insurance Companies

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 28 May 2008 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2014

Working Paper Series

Qingyi (Freda) Song Drechsler and J David Cummins

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton Research Data Services and Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science

Downloads 540

42.

Five Open Questions About Prediction Markets

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1975, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Working Paper No. 2006-06

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 Feb 2006

Working Paper Series

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and Dartmouth College

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 536

43.

The Basis Risk of Catastrophic-Loss Index Securities

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 22 Jun 2000

Working Paper Series

J David Cummins, David Lalonde and Richard D. Phillips

Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science, Applied Insurance Research and Georgia State University - Risk Management & Insurance Department

Downloads 534

44.

Prediction Markets in Theory and Practice

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, Forthcoming, Stanford GSB Research Paper No. 1927

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 09 May 2006

Working Paper Series

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Economics and Dartmouth College

There are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 521

45.

Conglomeration Versus Strategic Focus: Evidence from the Insurance Industry

July 1999

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 Mar 2000

Working Paper Series

Allen N. Berger, J David Cummins, Mary A. Weiss and Hongmin Zi

University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business, Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science, Temple University and Hong-Ik University

Downloads 518

46.

Reinsurance for Natural and Man-Made Catastrophes in the United States: Current State of the Market and Regulatory Reforms

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 05 Jul 2007

Working Paper Series

J David Cummins

Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science

Downloads 517

47.

Efficiency of Insurance Firms with Endogenous Risk Management and Financial Intermediation Activities

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 May 2006

Working Paper Series

Georges Dionne, J David Cummins, Robert Gagné and Abdelhakim Nouira

HEC Montreal - Department of Finance, Temple University - Risk Management & Insurance & Actuarial Science, HEC Montreal - Institute of Applied Economics and HEC Montreal - Department of Finance

Downloads 513

48.

Financial Innovation for an Aging World

Pension Research Council

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Aug 2006

Working Paper Series

Olivia S. Mitchell, John Piggott, Michael Sherris and Shaun Yow

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Australian School of Business, School of Economics, University of New South Wales - ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research and School of Risk and Actuarial Studies and University of New South Wales (UNSW)

There are 2 versions of this paper