Working Papers and Current Research

Federal Financial Exposure to Catastrophic Risk
With J. David Cummins and Michael Suher
Paper prepared for the NBER Conference on Measuring and Managing Federal Financial Risk, 2007

Catastrophe Bonds, Reinsurance, and the Optimal Collateralization of Risk Transfer
With Darius Lakdawalla
NBER Working Paper, #12742, 2006

Mutuality and the Underwriting Cycle: Theory with Evidence from the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Market, 1873-1909
Unpublished working paper, 2004

The Rise and Fall of the Fraternal Life Insurer: Law and Finance in U.S. Life Insurance, 1870-1920
Unpublished working paper, 2004

Market Discipline and Government Guarantees in Life Insurance
Unpublished working paper, 2003

Consumption versus Production of Insurance.
With Tomas Philipson
NBER Working Paper #6225, 1997

George Zanjani's CV

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