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Research Interests:

Insurance Economics, Household Finance, Public Policy Analysis, Health Economics


Peer-Reviewed Publications:

A Demand Curve for Disaster Recovery Loans.  (with Ben Collier; Accepted at Econometrica)

Du, Sabrina and Ellis, Cameron M. (2024) Multidimensional Barriers to Entry in the Insurance Industry. Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, 18(1), 21-53. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/apjri-2023-0026

Ellis, Cameron M., Grace, Martin F., Smith, Rhet A., and Zhang, Juan. (2022) Medical Cannabis and Automobile Accidents: Evidence from Auto Insurance.  Health Economics, 31( 9), 1878– 1897. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4553 

Ellis, Cameron M., and Meghan I. Esson. (2021) Crowd-Out and Emergency Department Utilization.  Journal of Health Economics, 80: 102542. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2021.102542 

Carson, J.M., Ellis, C.M., Hoyt, R.E. and Ostaszewski, K. (2020), Sunk Costs and Screening: Two‐Part Tariffs in Life Insurance.  Journal Risk and Insurance, 87: 689-718. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jori.12283


Working Papers:

``Private Equity in Public-Provider Markets: Cost Efficiency vs. Cream-Skimming'' (with Meghan Esson)

``Fixed Effects and the "Leave-Out" Instrument." (with Johannes Jaspersen)

``No Smoking Gun: Medical Cannabis and Gun Crime." (with J. Bradley Karl and Rhet Smith)

``The Cost of Consumer Collateral: Evidence from Bunching.'' (with Ben Collier and Ben Keys;  NBER Working Paper 29527)

``Managerial Discretion, Earnings Opacity, and Stock Price Informativeness: Ex Post vs. Ex Ante.'' (with Jim Carson, Elyas Elyasiani, and Yuan Wen)

``Registered Index-Linked Annuities in Qualified Retirement Plans.'' (with Thorsten Moenig and Jackie Volkman-Wise)

``Moral Hazard Induced Unraveling." (with Meghan Esson and Eli Liebman)


Early Stage Work:

"Difference-in-Differences with Rival Dependent Variables." (with Meghan Esson)

"Insurance Bundling and Market Power."  (with Sabrina Du, Johannes Jaspersen, and Eli Liebman)

"Selection through Lapsation in Life Insurance Markets" (with Johannes Jaspersen)