Past Event Category: FMRI
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May 3Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Brian Hartman (Brigham Young University), “Multivariate Spatiotemporal Models for County Level Mortality Data in the Contiguous United States”Grainger Hall Rm. 4151 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Brian Hartman’s current research interests include Bayesian methods and their applications in actuarial science and risk. He has worked in various capacities with companies in property-casualty, health, and long-term care insurance. Before BYU, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo (2010-11) and an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut (2011-15).
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Apr 26Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Jessica Ho (Penn State University), “Life Expectancy Leaders and Laggards: Causes of Best and Worst Performance in High-Income Countries”Grainger Hall Rm. 4151 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Jessica Ho is a demographer and sociologist whose expertise lies in the study of aging, health, and mortality. Some of her current projects focus on identifying how factors related to American culture, social institutions, and the organization of everyday life may explain why the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy of any high-income country and …
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Apr 12Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Rob CollinsonGrainger Hall Rm. 4151 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Rob Collinson is the Wilson Family LEO Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Notre Dame and the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO). He is an applied microeconomist with research interests in housing policy, urban policy, and the design of anti-poverty programs. He completed his Ph.D. from New York University.
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Apr 5Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Chris Timmins (UW-Madison), “Racial Dynamics of Federal Property Buyouts in Flood-Prone Areas”Grainger Hall Rm. 4151 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Chris Timmins is the Gary J. Gorman Affordable Housing Professor in the Real Estate and Urban Land Economics Department at the Wisconsin School of Business. Timmins specializes in urban and environmental economics, but he also has interests in industrial organization, development, public and regional economics.
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Mar 15Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Johnny Tang (Cornell University), “Regulatory Competition in the US Life Insurance Industry”Grainger Hall Rm. 4151 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Johnny Tang is an assistant professor of finance at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. His research interests are in empirical asset pricing, financial intermediation, and law and finance. Prior to joining Cornell, he received his PhD from Harvard University.
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Mar 8Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Elizabeth Wrigley Field (University of Minnesota), “What’s happening to US mortality since the Covid-19 pandemic?”Virtual (Zoom) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. She is a formal demographer and a sociologist. Her work integrates demographic methods, designed to shift perspectives between population-level patterns and individual-level transitions between social statuses, with a sociological approach to the study of inequality, in which multiple dimensions of stratification interact …
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Mar 1Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Roland Rau (University of Rostock), “Does mortality decelerate at the highest ages?”Grainger Hall Rm. 3070 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Roland Rau is professor of demography at the University of Rostock where he currently serves also as chair of the department of sociology & demography. In addition, he is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. His main research interests are in mathematical and statistical demography, survival improvements in developed countries, …
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Feb 23Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Julian Reif (University of Illinois), “The Long-run Effect of Air Pollution on Survival”Grainger Hall Rm. 3070 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Julian Reif is Associate Professor of Finance and Economics at Gies College of Business, University of Illinois. He is also affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, J-PAL North America, the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities, and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs. Dr. Reif is an applied microeconomist whose research focuses …
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Feb 16Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Liran Einav (Stanford University), “Market Design in Regulated Health Insurance Markets: Risk Adjustment vs. Subsidies”Grainger Hall Rm. 3180 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Liran Einav is a professor of economics at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is directing the Industrial Organization Program. Einav’s areas of specialization are industrial organization and applied microeconomics. An important strand of his work is focused on insurance markets, including the development of empirical …
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Feb 9Frontiers in Mortality, Risk & Insurance Seminar Series: Ishita Sen (Havard University), “When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets”Grainger Hall Rm. 3180 (975 University Ave, Madison, WI) Full FMRI Seminar Series schedule
Ishita Sen is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit. Professor Sen’s research focuses on financial intermediation, asset pricing, and insurance markets. In her current research, she studies how inconsistencies in regulation restrict risk management, how capital regulation affects the insurance product market, and more recently, the agency problems associated with the …