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Research Interests:

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


Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Collier, Benjamin L. & Ellis, Cameron M. (2024). A Demand Curve for Disaster Recovery Loans. Econometrica. 92 (3) pp. 713-748. DOI: 10.3982/ECTA20417.

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:

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

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