Insurance.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Insurance Working Group, directed by Liran Einav of Stanford University and Kenneth Froot of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on February 28 and March 1, 2014. Part of the meeting was held jointly with the Healthcare Program meeting. In addition to the papers marked with a (*) in the foregoing summary of the Healthcare meeting, these papers were discussed:

(*) Florian Scheuer, Stanford University and NBER, and Kent Smetters, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, "Could a Website Really Have Doomed the Health Exchanges ? Multiple Equilibria, Initial Conditions and the Construction of the Fine" (NBER Working Paper No. 19835)

(*) Gaston Palmucci, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Laura Dague, Texas A&M University, "The Welfare Effects of Banning Risk-Rated Pricing in Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from Chile"

* Ralph Koijen, London Business School, and Motohiro Yogo, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, "Shadow Insurance" (NBER Working Paper No. 19568)

* John Kiff, International Monetary Fund, and Michael Kisser, Norwegian School of Economics, "Longevity...