Insurance Project workshop.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Insurance Project, directed by NBER Research Associate Kenneth Froot of Harvard Business School, met in Cambridge on September 17, 2011. NBER Research Associate Howard Kunreuther of the University of Pennsylvania organized the meeting with Froot. These papers were discussed:

* Levon Barseghyan, Francesca Molinari, and Edward O'Donoghue, Cornell University, and Joshua Teitelbaum, Georgetown University, "The Nature of Risk Preferences: Evidence from Insurance Choices"

* Steven Shavell, Harvard University and NBER, "A General Rationale for a Governmental Role in the Relief of Large Risks"

* Erwann Michel-Kerjan, University of Pennsylvania, and Jacqueline Wolkman Wise, Temple University, "The Risk of Ever-Growing Disaster Relief Expectations"

* Daniel Bauer and George Zanjani, Georgia State University, "The Marginal Cost of Risk, Risk Measures, and Capital Allocation"

* Neil Doherty...