Insurance project workshop.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Insurance, directed by Research Associates Ken Froot of Harvard Business School and Howard Kunreuther of the University of Pennsylvania, met in Cambridge on May 21, 2010. These papers were discussed:

* Martin F. Grace, Georgia State University, and J. Tyler Leverty, University of Iowa, "How Tort Reform Affects Insurance Markets"

* Brian Cheyne and Greg Nini, University of Pennsylvania, "Creditor Mandated Purchases of Corporate Insurance"

* Francis Ghesquiere and Olivier Mahul, World Bank, "Financial Protection of the State against Natural Disasters"

* Anastasia Kartasheva, University of Pennsylvania, and Sojung Park, California State University, Fullerton, "Rating Standards for Catastrophic Risks and the Insurers' Capital Structure"

* John A. Major, Guy Carpenter & Company, Inc...