CEAR-MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop

About the Workshop
This workshop brings together researchers interested in the way risk management and insurance can be understood with behavioural methods. The workshop will also explore alternative theoretical models, as well as studies of the effects of insurance on risky behaviour by individuals, households, companies and society in general. This is the 14th workshop in this series. All sessions will be plenary, to encourage shared conversations across topics, and avoiding academic silos that can arise with parallel sessions.

Key Topics
1. Effects of allowing for "liquidity constraints" on the value of insurance: (Modelling risky consumption flows over periods of time and the use of insurance to mitigate those risks when individuals or households face borrowing constraints. 
2. The nature and measurement of "higher order risk preferences," which intuitively refer to preferences towards skewed risks and two-sided tail risks. 

Keynote Speakers and Scientific Committee
Speakers
Professor Justin Sydnor, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Professor Morten Lau, from the Copenhagen Business School.

Scientific committee
a)    Professor Andreas Richter (Chairman, MRIC, and LMU), 
b)    Professor Karlijn Morsink (Utrecht University and CEAR), 
c)    Dr. Kelvin Shikuku (ILRI).

Organizers
Glenn Harrison from Georgia State University (GSU).  He can be contacted at gharrison@gsu.edu with any academic questions about the workshop. 

Workshop hosts
·    The Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR).
·    Munich Risk and Insurance Center (MRIC). T
·    The International Livestock Research Institute (ILR). 

Registration
Please register for the event at https://gsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_daonTkAn9S7DyEm . For questions about registration, travel, diet, or reimbursements contact CEAR at cear@gsu.edu .