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Working Papers
2016
- Expected Worth for 2 � 2 Matrix Games with Variable Grid Sizes
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University 
Also in Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University (2016) View citations (1) Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University (2016)
2005
- A Note on a "Square-Root Rule" for Reinsurance
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University
2003
- Market Bubbles and Wasteful Avoidance: Tax and Regulatory Constraints on Short Sales
Yale School of Management Working Papers, Yale School of Management 
Also in Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University (2003)
1999
- Toward a Theory of Reinsurance and Retrocession
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University View citations (1)
See also Journal Article in Insurance: Mathematics and Economics (2001)
1994
- Insurance Market Games: Scale Effects and Public Policy
Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University View citations (6)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Economics (1998)
Journal Articles
2015
- Paradox-Proof Utility Functions for Heavy-Tailed Payoffs: Two Instructive Two-Envelope Problems
Risks, 2015, 3, (1), 1-9
2014
- The Relationship Between Regulatory Pressure and Insurer Risk Taking
Journal of Risk & Insurance, 2014, 81, (2), 271-301 View citations (4)
2013
- Insurance Risk, Risk Measures, and Capital Allocation: Navigating a Copernican Shift
Annual Review of Financial Economics, 2013, 5, (1), 201-223
2012
- A risk-based risk finance paradigm
Journal of Financial Transformation, 2012, 35, 173-178 View citations (1)
2010
- Diversification, hedging, and “pacification”
Journal of Risk Finance, 2010, 11, (5), 441-445
- Infinite-mean losses: insurance's “dread disease”
Journal of Risk Finance, 2010, 11, (2), 125-128
- Presbyter takes Knight
Journal of Risk Finance, 2010, 11, (1), 5-8 View citations (1)
- Uncertainty principles in risk finance
Journal of Risk Finance, 2010, 11, (3), 245-248 View citations (2)
- Where ignorance is bliss: the “dark corner” of risk classification
Journal of Risk Finance, 2010, 11, (4), 353-357
2009
- Adverse selection or advantageous selection? Risk and underwriting in China's health-insurance market
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2009, 44, (3), 505-510 View citations (4)
- Constant-sum sampling: an apology for statistics' “original sin”
Journal of Risk Finance, 2009, 10, (4), 317-320
- Insurance regulation in America – playing out of its league
Journal of Risk Finance, 2009, 10, (1), 5-6 View citations (1)
- Life‐insurance Efficiency in China: A Comparison of Foreign and Domestic Firms
China & World Economy, 2009, 17, (6), 43-63 View citations (4)
- Rethinking risk and return: Part 1 – novel norms for non-normality?
Journal of Risk Finance, 2009, 10, (2), 101-106 View citations (2)
- Rethinking risk and return: part 2 – some felicitous Fourier frequencies
Journal of Risk Finance, 2009, 10, (3), 205-209 View citations (3)
- Risk and Return Measures for a Non-Gaussian World
Journal of Financial Transformation, 2009, 25, 51-54
- The valuation of contingent capital with catastrophe risks
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2009, 45, (1), 65-73 View citations (15)
2008
- Combining information about … combining information
Journal of Risk Finance, 2008, 9, (5), 417-421
- Lanchester resurgent? The mathematics of terrorism risk
Journal of Risk Finance, 2008, 9, (3), 225-231
- Social Stability and Catastrophe Risk: Lessons From the Stag Hunt
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2008, 20, (4), 477-497 View citations (2)
- The nature of randomness: Part 1 – Knowable or unknowable?
Journal of Risk Finance, 2008, 9, (1), 5-8
- The nature of randomness: Part 2 – Cognitive constraints
Journal of Risk Finance, 2008, 9, (2), 101-105
- The sequential sawyer – a tale of frequentist fright
Journal of Risk Finance, 2008, 9, (4), 313-316
2007
- Human mortality: written in the stars?
Journal of Risk Finance, 2007, 8, (1), 5-10
- Intuition and surprise
Journal of Risk Finance, 2007, 8, (5), 429-433 View citations (1)
- Sharing responsibility: what they didn't teach you in kindergarten
Journal of Risk Finance, 2007, 8, (2), 93-96
- Thoughts on the “scientific method”: part 1 – ignorance through inconsistency
Journal of Risk Finance, 2007, 8, (3), 209-213 View citations (1)
- Thoughts on the “scientific method”: part 2 – frequentist fecklessness
Journal of Risk Finance, 2007, 8, (4), 325-329 View citations (1)
2003
- Of happy and hapless regulators: the asymptotics of ruin
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2003, 32, (2), 317-330 View citations (3)
2001
- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE: THE “MODAL” PROPERTY‐LIABILITY LINE
Risk Management and Insurance Review, 2001, 4, (1), 35-38
- Toward a theory of reinsurance and retrocession
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2001, 29, (2), 271-290 View citations (1)
See also Working Paper (1999)
1999
- WHAT IS “INSURANCE”? LESSONS FROM THE CAPTIVE INSURANCE TAX CONTROVERSY
Risk Management and Insurance Review, 1999, 2, (2), 72-80 View citations (3)
1998
- Insurance Premium Taxes: a Lump-Sum Proposal
Public Finance Review, 1998, 26, (1), 53-66
- Insurance market games: Scale effects and public policy
Journal of Economics, 1998, 67, (2), 109-134 View citations (5)
See also Working Paper (1994)
- On the tradeoff between the law of large numbers and oligopoly in insurance
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 1998, 23, (2), 141-156 View citations (8)
1995
- A theory of risk, return and solvency
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 1995, 17, (2), 101-118 View citations (10)
- Captive Insurance Tax Policy: Resolving a Global Problem
The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, 1995, 20, (2), 197-229
Editor
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance
De Gruyter
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