Research
Research
My primary fields of interest include catastrophe risk, insurer operations, insurance market economics, financial markets, and behavioral insurance.
Financing Negative Shocks: Evidence from Hurricane Harvey, with Benjamin Collier, Lars Powell, and Xuesong You. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Forthcoming.
Insurance Demand Experiments: Comparing Crowdworking to the Lab, with Johannes Jaspersen and Justin Sydnor. The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 89(4): 1077-1107, 2022.
Probability Weighting and Insurance Demand in a Unified Framework, with Johannes Jaspersen and Richard Peter. The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 48: 63-109, 2023.
Predicting Insurance Demand from Risk Attitudes, with Johannes Jaspersen and Justin Sydnor. The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 89(1): 63-96, 2022.
The Effect of Information Disclosure on Demand for High-Load Insurance, with Benjamin Collier and Johannes Jaspersen. The Journal of Risk and Insurance. 88(1): 161-193, 2021.
Linking Subjective and Incentivized Risk Attitudes: The Importance of Losses, with Johannes Jaspersen and Justin Sydnor. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 60: 187-206, 2020.
The Influence of Sellers on Contract Choice: Evidence from Flood Insurance, with Benjamin Collier. The Journal of Risk and Insurance. 87(2): 523-557, 2020.
An Ex Post Assessment of Investor Response to Catastrophes, with Jianren Xu. North American Actuarial Journal. 23(2): 250-275, 2019.
Market Expectations Following Catastrophes: An Examination of Insurance Broker Returns, with Martin Halek. The Journal of Risk and Insurance. 83(4): 849-876, 2016.
Accounting Standards and Gains Trading, with Evan Eastman and Kyeonghee Kim.
A Model of Anchoring and Adjustment for Decision-Making Under Risk, with Johannes Jaspersen and Christian König.
Insurance Demand in Incomplete Markets: An Experimental Investigation, with Johannes Jaspersen.
Insurance Demand and Intertemporal Preferences, with Johannes Jaspersen and Richard Peter.
Strategic Entry Decisions in Domestic Insurance Markets, with Kenny Wunder.