2024-25 Academic Year
July 19, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 306
Jinggong Zhang from Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Presentation: "Blended Insurance Scheme: A Synergistic Conventional-Index Insurance Mixture"
October 23, 2024
3:30 - 5 p.m. | HLH 215
Hua Chen from University of Hawaii at Manoa
Presentation: M&As and Internal Capital Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Property-Liability Insurers
November 1, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 120
Rob Hoyt, University of Georgia
Presentation: Does Enterprise Risk Management Increase Transparency?
November 8, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 219
Kenneth Zhou from Arizona State University
Presentation: Modeling Cause-Specific Pandemic Mortality Shocks: Implications to Longevity Risk Managemen
November 15, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 223
Wenjun Jiang from University of Calgary
Presentation: Revisiting the design of insurance under adverse selection
March 7, 2025
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 219
Tianxiang Shi from Temple University
Presentation: TBA
2023-24 Academic Year
September 15, 2023
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Via Zoom Meeting ID: 6468071462 | Passcode: 123456
Michael Tichareva, Managing Director & Principal of National Standard Finance Africa
Presentation: Opportunities for Applying Actuarial Techniques in Banking
October 6, 2023
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 219 and Zoom: Meeting ID: 6468071462 | Passcode: 123456
Zhiyu Quan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Presentation: InsurTech in Action
October 20, 2023
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 032 and Zoom: Meeting ID: 6468071462 | Passcode: 123456
Vytaras Brazauskas, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Presentation: Smoothing and Measuring Discrete Risks on Finite and Infinite Domains
November 3, 2023
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 219 and Zoom: Meeting ID: 6468071462 | Passcode: 123456
Jianxi Su, Purdue University
Presentation: Can a regulatory risk measure induce profit-maximizing risk capital allocations? The case of conditional tail expectation
November 17, 2023
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | HLH 211 and Zoom: Meeting ID: 6468071462 | Passcode: 123456
Zhiwei Tong, University of Iowa
Presentation: A Framework for Assessing Climate-Risk Exposures Using Variational Autoencoders
May 3, 2024
10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Location TBA
Hong Li, University of Guelph
Presentation: TBA
2022-23 Academic Year
October 14, 2022
Jay Vadiveloo, University of Connecticut
Presentation: "Applied Actuarial Research at UConn’s Goldenson Center"
December 2, 2022
Liang Hong, University of Texas at Dallas
Presentation: Valid Model-Free Prediction of Future Insurance Claims
March 10, 2023
Bin Zou, University of Connecticut
Presentation: Stackelberg (Re)Insurance Games under Model Ambiguity
March 24, 2023
Runhuan Feng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presentation: Tokenomics of Decentralized Insurance
April 28, 2023
Ed Furman, York University
Presentation: TBA
2020-21 Academic Year
February 26, 2021
Catherine Donnelly, Heriot-Watt University
Paper: "Pooling longevity for a better retirement income: how many people are needed?"
March 19, 2021
Haiyan Liu, Michigan State University
Paper: Distributionally robust reinsurance with Value-at-Risk and Conditional Value-at-Risk
March 26, 2021
Hua Chen, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Paper: Medicaid Expansion and Medical Liability Costs
April 9, 2021
Shu Li, Western University
Paper: The analysis of general drawdowns and their applications
April 16, 2021
Benjamin Collier, Temple University
Paper: How do households respond to public program reforms? Evidence from the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program
April 30, 2021
Becky Lee, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Paper: "A cyclic approach on classical ruin model"
2019-20 Academic Year
November 1, 2019
Daniel Linders, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paper: American-type basket option pricing: a simple two-dimensional partial differential equation
November 8, 2019
Gregory R. Niehaus, University of South Carolina
Paper: Personal Taxes, Cost of Insurer Equity Capital, and the Case of Offshore Hedge Fund Reinsurers
February 21, 2020
Fangda Liu, University of Waterloo
Paper: A Theory for Measures of Tail Risk
2018-19 Academic Year
August 31, 2018
Robert Hoyt, University of Georgia
Paper: Enterprise Risk Management and Transparency: Evidence from Insider Trading
October 26, 2018
Xunyu Zhou, Columbia University
Paper: Date Driven Markowitz
January 18, 2018
Barbara Carby, The University of The West Indies
Paper: A Preliminary Look at the Impact of Climate Change on Jamaica’s Infrastructure and Potential Risk Reduction and Adaptation Strategies
February 15, 2019
Jeffrey Pai, University of Manitoba
Paper: Pricing Temperature Derivatives with a Filtered Historical Simulation Approach
March 8, 2019
Chengguo Weng, University of Waterloo
Paper: Eigen Portfolio Selection: A Robust Approach to Sharpe Ratio Maximization
March 15, 2019
Peng Liang, Georgia State University
Slides: Statistical Inference for Mortality Model and Risk Allocation
2017-18 Academic Year
September 15, 2017
James Carson, University of Georgia
Paper: Sunk Costs and Screening: Two-Part Tariffs in Life Insurance
November 10, 2017
Peng Shi, University of Wisconsin
Paper: Pair Copula Constructions for Insurance Experience Rating
February 16, 2018
Ian Duncan, University of California Santa Barbara
Paper: Changing Healthcare: How can we Harness Predictive Analytics for Patients, Providers and Payers?
March 16, 2018
Ambrose Lo, University of Iowa
Paper: Characterizations of optimal reinsurance treaties: A cost-benefit approach
Paper: A Neyman-Pearson perspective on optimal reinsurance with constraints
Paper: Pareto-optimal reinsurance policies in the presence of individual risk constraints
April 20, 2018
Emiliano Valdez, University of Connecticut
Paper: Joint Modeling of Customer Loyalty and Risk in Personal Insurance