Research
Research Interests
Financial decision making
Pensions
Annuities and long-term care insurance
Asymmetric information on insurance markets
Published Papers and Book Chapters
Nursing home aversion post-pandemic: Implications for savings and long-term care policy (2022), with B. Achou, P. deDonder, M. Lee and M.-L. Leroux. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.06.034
Pensions, annuities, and long-term care insurance: On the impact of risk screening (2021), with M. M. Boyer. The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review. doi.org/10.1057/s10713-020-00058-9
The Early Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Household Finances in Québec (2020), with B. Achou, D. Boisclair, P. d’Astous, R. Fonseca, and P.-C. Michaud. Canadian Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.3138/cpp.2020-087
Annuities, long-term care insurance, and insurer solvency (2019), with B. Achou. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice 44: 252. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41288-019-00125-x
An incentive-compatible experiment on probabilistic insurance and implications for an insurer’s solvency level (2018), with A. Zimmer, H. Gründl, and C. Schade. Journal of Risk and Insurance 85(1), (DOI 10.1111/jori.12148).
Behavioral Risk In: Investment Risk Management, H.K. Baker and G. Filbeck (Eds.), 2015, Oxford University Press; with M. Boyer and S. Ouzan.
Working Papers
Frames, Incentives, and Education: Effectiveness of Interventions to Delay Public Pension Claiming (with P.-C. Michaud and S. Staubli, R&R)
At Home versus in a Nursing Home: Long-term Care Settings and Marginal Utility (with B. Achou, P. De Donder, M-L Leroux, and M. Lee, currently under review).
Adverse Selection and the Interdependence of Annuity and Long-Term Care Insurance Markets(with M.M. Boyer).
Work in Progress
Investing in the age of automated advice (with M. Bianchi and M. Brière)
Underwriter Behavior and Profitability Cycles in Insurance (with M. Boyer and S. van Norden)}
Examining the Feasibility of Post-Loss Financing Mechanisms to Insure Against Natural Catastrophes (with C. Nyce and J. Karl)
Conference Presentations
European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists 2024
Experimental Finance Conference 2024
European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists 2023
Netspar Pension Workshop 2023
Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center 2023
American Risk and Insurance Association 2022
Société canadienne de science économique 2022
World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress 2020
Discussion at the Netspar Pension Workshop 2020
Seminar at St. John’s University 2017
Southern Risk and Insurance Association 2015
Southern Finance Association 2015
Seminar at the University of Bath 2013
European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists 2013
American Risk and Insurance Association 2013
German Insurance Science Association 2013
Munich Workshop on Behavioral Insurance 2012