Papers and Publications:

Public versus Private Underwriting of Catastrophe Risk: Lessons from the California Earthquake Authority
Risking House and Home: Disasters, Cities, Public Policy, edited by John M. Quigley and Larry A. Rosenthal, Berkeley: Berkeley Public Policy Press Forthcoming

Regulation, Capital, and the Evolution of Organizational Form in U.S. Life Insurance
American Economic Review 97,973-983 (2007)

Insurance, Self Protection, and the Economics of Terrorism
With Darius Lakdawalla
Journal of Public Economics 89, 1891-1905 (2005)

Terrorism Insurance Policy and the Public Good
With Darius Lakdawalla
St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary 18 463-469 (2004)

The Production and Regulation of Health Insurance: Limiting Opportunism in Proprietary and Non-Proprietary Organizations
With Tomas Philipson
Individual Decisions for Health, edited by Bjorn Lindgren, Routledge International Studies in Health Economics, Routledge: London 194-206 (2003)

Pricing and Capital Allocation in Catastrophe Insurance
Journal of Financial Economics 65, 283-305(2002)

George Zanjani's CV

The views expressed in the papers listed on this page are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System.