Actuarial Science, Risk Management & Insurance Seminar Series

Our faculty regularly give research talks at professional meetings and other universities. Here is a list of recent seminars sponsored by the Department.

Title:  Modeling and Management of Non-Linear Dependencies - Copulas in Dynamic Financial Analysis
Speaker: Martin Eling, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Date: January 25, 2008

Title: Vertical Integration and Information Technology Investment in the Insurance Industry
Speaker: Anne Gron, NERA Economic Consulting
Date: December 7, 2007

Title: Dupes or Incompetents? An Examination of Management's Impact on Firm Distress
Speaker: J. Tyler Leverty, University of Iowa
Date: November 2, 2007

Title: Allstate Insurance Presentation
Speaker: Richard Crabb and Mike Hobart, Allstate Insurance Company
Date: September 28, 2007

Title: Does ambiguity aversion reinforce risk aversion?  Applications to portfolio choices and asset prices
Speaker: Christian Gollier, University of Toulouse, France
Date: May 15, 2007

Title: Analytics and Predictive Modeling at Assurant Health
Speaker: Jim Grana, VP, Forecasting and Advanced Analytics, Assurant Health
Date: April 13, 2007

Title: The Costs of Care for Stroke Patients in Managed Care versus Traditional Medicare Plans
Speaker: Maureen Smith, Population Health
Date: March 23, 2007

Title: Sustainability Risk Management
Speaker: Dan Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: January 26, 2007

Title: Reforming a Breadwinner Welfare State: Gender, Race, Class, and Social Security Reform
Speaker: Pamela Herd, LaFollette Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: December 8, 2006

Title: Recent Developments in Claims Reserving
Speaker: Katrien Antonio, University Center for Statistics, Belgium
Date: May 5, 2006

Title: Convergence and Contagion in the U.S. Banking and Insurance Industries: Evidence from Operational Risk Events
Speaker: Ran Wei, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Date: December 19, 2005

Title: Neighbors Matter: Community Effects and Stock Market Participation
Speaker: Jeffrey Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Date: December 2, 2005

Title: Capital Allocation for Insurance Companies What Good is it?
Speaker: Helmut Gründl, Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin Germany
Date: November 18, 2005

Title: Longitudinal models of Singapore automobile insurance
Speaker: Emil Valdez, University of New South Wales
Date: June 28, 2005

Title: Health care and health insurance in China
Speaker: Cuncun Luan
Date: April 15, 2005

Title: Predictive modeling in actuarial practice
Speaker: David Axene, Axene Health Partners LLC
Date: February 25, 2005

Title: Guaranteed Annuity Options
Speaker: Mary Hardy, University of Waterloo
Date: October 15, 2004

Title: Concentration in the US Industry
Speaker: Jim Barresse, St. Johns University
Date: September 24, 2004

Title: Institutional Investors and Biased Financial Reporting
Speaker: Holly Ashbaugh, Ryan LaFond and Brian Mayhew, UW School of Business
Date: May 7, 2004

Title: Trends in Prescription Cost Shielding for Medicare Beneficiaries by Drug Coverage 1994 to 1999
Speaker: David Mott, UW School of Pharmacy
Date: April 23, 2004

Title: Modeling Hidden Exposures in Claim Severity via the EM Algorithm
Speaker: Richard Derrig, Automobile Insurance Bureau
Date: March 26, 2004

Title: Adverse Selection in Term Life Insurance Purchasing due to the BRCA1/2 Genetic Test and Elastic Demand
Speaker: Krupa Viswanathan, Temple University
Date: December 12, 2003

Title: Latest Trends in Risk Management for the Insurance Industry
Speaker: Shaun Wang, SCOR Group Research Director
Date: September 26, 2003

Title: Learning to Share: Evidence on the Value of Relationships in Insurance
Speaker: Greg Nini, Division of International Finance, Federal Reserve Board
Date: March 28, 2003

Title: Optimal Annuitization when Stochastic Consumption Shocks Are Correlated with Mortality
Speaker: Sven H. Sinclair, University of Waterloo
Date: February 21, 2003

Title: Managing the Cost of Property-Casualty Insurer Insolvencies in the U.S.
Speaker: Rich Phillips, Georgia State University
Date: December 20, 2002

Title: The Sources and Compensation of Long-Term Care for the Elderly
Speaker: Meta Brown, Economics Department
Date: November 15, 2002

Title: Hierarchical Forecasting of Labor Force Participation Rates
Speaker: Jed Frees, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: October 18, 2002