Insurance and Financial Risk Management

Field	Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Subfield	Economics and Econometrics
Domain	Social Sciences
OpenAlex	T12394

Smeal faculty

• Nan Zhu - score 14.0
• David A. Cather - score 8.0
• Keith J. Crocker - score 8.0
• Lisa L. Posey - score 5.0
• Semin Park - score 3.0
• Chad Marzen - score 2.0
• Arnold F. Shapiro - score 2.0
• Zhongyi Yuan - score 2.0
• Trent Krupa - score 1.0

Papers

• Is Honesty the Best Policy? Curtailing Insurance Fraud through Optimal Incentive Contracts (1998) - cites 196
• The Efficiency Effects of Categorical Discrimination in the Insurance Industry (1986) - cites 161
• Hardball and the soft touch: The economics of optimal insurance contracts with costly state verification and endogenous monitoring costs (1997) - cites 125
• Fuzzy logic in insurance (2004) - cites 118
• Smoking, Skydiving, and Knitting: The Endogenous Categorization of Risks in Insurance Markets with Asymmetric Information (1991) - cites 97
• The Theory of Risk Classification (2013) - cites 88
• A Simple Tax Structure for Competitive Equilibrium and Redistribution in Insurance Markets with Asymmetric Information (1985) - cites 57
• The Theory of Risk Classification (2000) - cites 50
• Multidimensional Screening in Insurance Markets with Adverse Selection (2010) - cites 48
• Policyholder Exercise Behavior in Life Insurance: The State of Affairs (2017) - cites 44
• A Search Model of Marketing Systems in Property-Liability Insurance (1995) - cites 39
• CAT BOND PRICING UNDER A PRODUCT PROBABILITY MEASURE WITH POT RISK CHARACTERIZATION (2019) - cites 36
• Lapse‐and‐Reentry in Variable Annuities (2016) - cites 29
• Cream Skimming: Innovations in Insurance Risk Classification and Adverse Selection (2018) - cites 26
• Coherent Pricing of Life Settlements Under Asymmetric Information (2013) - cites 26
• Reconsidering insurance discrimination and adverse selection in an era of data analytics (2020) - cites 24
• A Gentle Introduction to Risk Aversion and Utility Theory (2009) - cites 20
• Indifference pricing of insurance-linked securities in a multi-period model (2020) - cites 16
• Availability Crises in Insurance Markets: Optimal Contracts with Asymmetric Information and Capacity Constraints (1997) - cites 14
• Hedging Longevity Risk in Life Settlements Using Biomedical Research‐Backed Obligations (2017) - cites 14
• An Overview of Insurance Uses of Fuzzy Logic (2007) - cites 11
• The efficiency of voluntary risk classification in insurance markets (2020) - cites 10
• A Profitability Analysis of Property-Liability Insurers Using Alternative Distribution Systems (1985) - cites 9
• Asymmetric information in secondary insurance markets: Evidence from the life settlements market (2020) - cites 8
• Conflict and Channel Management in Property-Liability Distribution Systems (1989) - cites 7
• Adverse Selection in Secondary Insurance Markets: Evidence from the Life Settlement Market (2014) - cites 6
• The informational value of insurance purchases: Evidence from the property-liability insurance market (1997) - cites 5
• Large losses and equilibrium in insurance markets (2019) - cites 3
• Adverse selection in tontines (2024) - cites 3
• Risk Management for Insurers: Integration of Capital Management and Product Design (2016) - cites 2