Presentations

Conferences

FSU Risk Management and Insurance Research Symposium — hosted by the FSU Risk Management and Insurance Center and the Dr. William T. Hold/The Alliance’s Program in Risk Management and Insurance.

The fifth annual symposium meets January 21–23, 2027 at the Tampa Hilton Downtown. The call for papers is open, with submissions due September 15, 2026; authors of accepted papers are notified on or soon after October 15. Papers on any risk management and insurance topic are welcome, works in progress included. Each accepted paper gets an hour-long presentation slot and an assigned discussant, and the Hold/Alliance Program provides hotel accommodation for one author. Submit a PDF to RMI-ResearchSymposium@wertheim.fsu.edu with the subject line “Research Symposium”. Attendance is by invitation.

Invited Talks — Academic

February 2025 — Homeowners Insurance and Housing Prices (with Kyeonghee Kim and Tingyu Zhou). University of Georgia; Athens, Georgia.
November 2023 — Regulatory Capital and Catastrophe Risk (with Kyeonghee Kim). University of North Texas; Denton, Texas.
January 2022 — The Capital Market Consequences Associated with Classifying Unrealized Gains and Losses on Available-For-Sale (AFS) Equity Securities in GAAP Net Income (with John L. Campbell, James M. Carson, and Dan Yang). Egyptian Online Seminar in Business Accounting and Economics; Virtual.
November 2019 — Accounting Discretion and Loss Reserve Discounting: Evidence from the Canadian Property-Casualty Insurance Industry (with David L. Eckles and Mary Kelly). CPA Ontario Centre for Capital Markets and Behavioural Decision Making, Wilfrid Laurier University; Waterloo, Canada.
September 2018 — Accounting Discretion and Regulation: Evidence from Health Insurers and the Affordable Care Act (with David L. Eckles and Andrew Van Buskirk). Robert A. Hedges Research Seminar Series, Temple University; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
October 2016 — Asymmetry in Earnings Management Surrounding Targeted Ratings (with David L. Eckles and Martin Halek). Florida State University; Tallahassee, Florida.
September 2016 — Asymmetry in Earnings Management Surrounding Targeted Ratings (with David L. Eckles and Martin Halek). Chubb Insurance Research Symposium, St. John’s University; New York, New York.

Invited Talks — Professional

April 2026 — The Guaranty System: A Primer — Part 1: The Property & Casualty Safety Net and Part 2: The Life & Health Safety Net (in conjunction with The Institutes Griffith Foundation). National Council of Insurance Legislators Spring National Meeting; Louisville, Kentucky.
October 2024 — Back to Basics: P&C Guaranty Funds. The Institutes Griffith Insurance Education Foundation / CIPR; Virtual.
June 2024 — Back to Basics: Life and Health Guaranty Associations. The Institutes Griffith Insurance Education Foundation / CIPR; Virtual.

Conference Presentations

October 2026 · Financial Management Association Annual Meeting; Tampa, Florida (scheduled)
- A Text-Based Measure of Corporate Risk Management (with Steve M. Miller and Po-Lin Wang)
October 2026 · NAIC/CIPR Research Symposium; Kansas City, Missouri (scheduled)
- Pricing Climate Risk in Commercial Property Insurance (with Stephen L. Buschbom, Chongyu Wang, and Tingyu Zhou)
September 2026 · Urban Economics Association North American Meeting; Chicago, Illinois (scheduled)
- Climate Risk and Commercial Property Insurance (with Stephen L. Buschbom, Chongyu Wang, and Tingyu Zhou)
August 2026 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Orlando, Florida
- Climate Risk and Commercial Property Insurance (with Stephen L. Buschbom, Chongyu Wang, and Tingyu Zhou)
- Insurer Innovation: Measurement, Determinants, and Value Implications (with Po-Lin Wang)
May 2026 · American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association National Conference; Washington, D.C.
- Climate Risk and Commercial Property Insurance (with Stephen L. Buschbom, Chongyu Wang, and Tingyu Zhou)
May 2026 · Western Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Monterey, California
- Climate Risk and Commercial Property Insurance (with Stephen L. Buschbom, Chongyu Wang, and Tingyu Zhou)
- Homeowners Insurance and Housing Prices (with Kyeonghee Kim and Tingyu Zhou)
- Managerial Discretion and Ownership Structure: An Examination of Earnings Management in the Insurer Loss Reserve Surrounding the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (with James M. Carson and Anne C. Ehinger)
April 2026 · Risk Theory Society Annual Seminar; Tallahassee, Florida
- Homeowners Insurance and Housing Prices (with Kyeonghee Kim and Tingyu Zhou)
March 2026 · American Real Estate Society Annual Conference; Sandestin, Florida
- Climate Risk and Commercial Property Insurance (with Stephen L. Buschbom, Chongyu Wang, and Tingyu Zhou)
November 2025 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Charleston, South Carolina
- Climate Risk and Commercial Property Insurance (with Stephen L. Buschbom, Chongyu Wang, and Tingyu Zhou)
- Innovation and Value Creation in the Insurance Industry: Evidence from Textual Analysis of 10-K Filings (with Po-Lin Wang and Dan Yang)
November 2025 · Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting; Orlando, Florida
- Homeowners Insurance and Housing Prices (with Kyeonghee Kim and Tingyu Zhou)
October 2025 · Urban Economics Association North American Meeting; Montreal, Canada
- Homeowners Insurance and Housing Prices (with Kyeonghee Kim and Tingyu Zhou)
August 2025 · World Risk and Insurance Economic Congress; Calgary, Canada
- Homeowners Insurance and Housing Prices (with Kyeonghee Kim and Tingyu Zhou)
- Managerial Discretion and Ownership Structure: An Examination of Earnings Management in the Insurer Loss Reserve Surrounding the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (with James M. Carson and Anne C. Ehinger)
- A Text-Based Measure of Corporate Risk Management (with Steve M. Miller and Po-Lin Wang)
- Enterprise Risk Management and Employee Safety (with Yuchen Qi and Jianren Xu)
May 2025 · American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association National Conference; Washington, D.C.
- Homeowners Insurance and Housing Prices (with Kyeonghee Kim and Tingyu Zhou)
April 2025 · American Real Estate Society Annual Conference; Tucson, Arizona
- Homeowners Insurance and Housing Prices (with Kyeonghee Kim and Tingyu Zhou)
January 2025 · American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association Annual Meeting; San Francisco, California
- Homeowners Insurance and Housing Prices (with Kyeonghee Kim and Tingyu Zhou)
November 2024 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; San Antonio, Texas
- Homeowners Insurance and Housing Prices (with Kyeonghee Kim and Tingyu Zhou)
- Insurer Start-Up Survival (with Dana Telljohann)
- Is There an Optimal Level of Corporate Risk Management? (with Steve M. Miller and Po-Lin Wang)
- Enterprise Risk Management and Employee Safety (with Yuchen Qi and Jianren Xu)
- Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Capital Market Efficiency (with Joshua D. Frederick and Jiyeon Yun)
- Internal Capital Markets and Accounting Quality (with Joshua D. Frederick)
- Managerial Discretion, Ownership Structure, and Taxes (with James M. Carson and Anne C. Ehinger)
November 2024 · Southern Finance Association Annual Meeting; Palm Beach, Florida
- Regulatory Capital and Catastrophe Risk (with Kyeonghee Kim)
August 2024 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Denver, Colorado
- The Usefulness of Increased Disclosures for Complex Estimates (with Anne C. Ehinger and Andrea Tillet)
- A Text-Based Measure of Corporate Risk Management (with Steve M. Miller and Po-Lin Wang)
- Insurer Start-Up Survival (with Dana Telljohann)
- Financial Reporting and Firm’s Investment Strategy: Evidence from the U.S. Insurance Industry (with James M. Carson and Dan Yang)
April 2024 · Risk Theory Society Annual Seminar; Iowa City, Iowa
- Regulatory Capital and Catastrophe Risk (with Kyeonghee Kim)
April 2024 · Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting; St. Petersburg, Florida
- Regulatory Capital and Catastrophe Risk (with Kyeonghee Kim)
January 2024 · Allied Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting; San Antonio, Texas
- Regulatory Capital and Catastrophe Risk (with Kyeonghee Kim)
January 2024 · Hawaii Accounting Research Conference Annual Meeting; Honolulu, Hawaii
- The Usefulness of Increased Disclosures for Complex Estimates (with Anne C. Ehinger and Andrea Tillet)
December 2023 · CEAR/MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop; Atlanta, Georgia
- Regulatory Capital and Catastrophe Risk (with Kyeonghee Kim)
November 2023 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Savannah, Georgia
- The Usefulness of Increased Disclosures for Complex Estimates (with Anne C. Ehinger and Andrea Tillet)
- Does Regulation Lead to Manipulation? The Impact of Regulation on Property-Casualty Insurer Loss Reserves (with Dana Telljohann)
- A Text-Based Measure of Corporate Risk Management (with Steve M. Miller and Po-Lin Wang)
August 2023 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Washington, D.C.
- Regulatory Capital and Catastrophe Risk (with Kyeonghee Kim)
- Unemployment Benefits During the Pandemic and Life Insurer Disintermediation (with James M. Carson, Robert E. Hoyt, and Kyeonghee Kim)
- Fixing Shadow (re)Insurance? (with Jaewon Choi, Kyeonghee Kim, and Jiyeon Yun)
- Capital Structure, Financial Strength Ratings, and Market Discipline (with James M. Carson and Dan Yang)
November 2022 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; New Orleans, Louisiana
- Regulatory Capital and Catastrophe Risk (with Kyeonghee Kim)
- Risk Management and Corporate Lifecycles: Evidence from Reinsurance Purchases (with Cassandra R. Cole)
- Unemployment Benefits During the Pandemic and Life Insurer Disintermediation (with James M. Carson, Robert E. Hoyt, and Kyeonghee Kim)
- Regulatory Frictions in Insurance Markets: Evidence from Changes to Risk-Based Capital Standards (with David L. Eckles and Mary Kelly)
- Bad Faith Litigation in the Property-Casualty Insurance Industry (with Patricia H. Born and Dana Telljohann)
- Capital Structure, Financial Strength Ratings, and Market Discipline (with James M. Carson and Dan Yang)
November 2022 · Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting Annual Conference; Atlanta, Georgia
- The Capital Market Consequences Associated with Classifying Unrealized Gains and Losses on Available-For-Sale (AFS) Equity Securities in GAAP Net Income (with John L. Campbell, James M. Carson, and Dan Yang)
August 2022 · American Accounting Association Annual Meeting; San Diego, California
- The Capital Market Consequences Associated with Classifying Unrealized Gains and Losses on Available-For-Sale (AFS) Equity Securities in GAAP Net Income (with John L. Campbell, James M. Carson, and Dan Yang)
August 2022 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Long Beach, California
- Risk Management and Corporate Lifecycles: Evidence from Reinsurance Purchases (with Cassandra R. Cole)
- The Capital Market Consequences Associated with Classifying Unrealized Gains and Losses on Available-For-Sale (AFS) Equity Securities in GAAP Net Income (with John L. Campbell, James M. Carson, and Dan Yang)
- Capital Structure, Financial Strength Ratings, and Market Discipline (with James M. Carson and Dan Yang)
January 2022 · Hawaii Accounting Research Conference Annual Meeting; Virtual
- Regulatory Capital Planning and Deferred Tax Assets in a Post-Financial Crisis Environment (with Anne C. Ehinger and Cathryn M. Meegan)
November 2021 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Conference; Virtual
- The Capital Market Consequences Associated with Classifying Unrealized Gains and Losses on Available-For-Sale (AFS) Equity Securities in GAAP Net Income (with John L. Campbell, James M. Carson, and Dan Yang)
- Target Capital Structure and Financial Strength Ratings (with James M. Carson and Dan Yang)
October 2021 · Financial Management Association Annual Conference; Virtual
- Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Tax Planning (with Anne C. Ehinger and Jianren Xu)
August 2021 · American Accounting Association Annual Conference; Virtual
- Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Tax Avoidance (with Anne C. Ehinger and Jianren Xu)
August 2021 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Conference; Virtual
- Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Tax Avoidance (with Anne C. Ehinger and Jianren Xu)
- Does Earnings Reclassification Change Firm’s Information Asymmetry? Evidence from Public Banks and Insurers (with John L. Campbell, James M. Carson, and Dan Yang)
June 2021 · Canadian Academic Accounting Association Annual Conference; Virtual
- Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Tax Avoidance (with Anne C. Ehinger and Jianren Xu)
March 2021 · University of North Texas Accounting Research Conference; Virtual
- Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Tax Avoidance (with Anne C. Ehinger and Jianren Xu)
January 2021 · Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Midyear Meeting; Virtual
- Enterprise Risk Management and Financial Misconduct (with Chan Li, Lili Sun, and Jianren Xu)
November 2020 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Virtual
- Regulatory Capital Planning and Deferred Tax Assets in a Post-Financial Crisis Environment (with Anne C. Ehinger and Cathryn M. Meegan)
- Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Tax Avoidance (with Anne C. Ehinger and Jianren Xu)
- The Impact of Earnings Reclassification on the Informativeness of Earnings: Evidence from Public Insurers (with James M. Carson and Dan Yang)
- Errors in Claim-Level Loss Reserving: Evidence from Medical Malpractice Claims (with Patricia H. Born and Paul C. Schriefer)
October 2020 · Financial Management Association Annual Meeting; Virtual
- Enterprise Risk Management and Financial Misconduct (with Chan Li, Lili Sun, and Jianren Xu)
August 2020 · American Accounting Association Annual Meeting; Virtual
- Regulatory Capital Planning and Deferred Tax Assets in a Post-Financial Crisis Environment (with Anne C. Ehinger and Cathryn M. Meegan)
August 2020 · World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress; Virtual
- Regulatory Capital Planning and Deferred Tax Assets in a Post-Financial Crisis Environment (with Anne C. Ehinger and Cathryn M. Meegan)
- The Impact of Earnings Reclassification on the Informativeness of Earnings: Evidence from Public Insurers and Banks (with James M. Carson and Dan Yang)
- Personal Characteristics and Accounting Estimates: Evidence from CEOs, Actuaries, and Reported Loss Reserves (with Olga Kanj and Mary Kelly)
- Eh-ccruals: Regulatory Impacts on the Reporting of Loss Reserves (with David L. Eckles, Anne Kleffner, and Mary Kelly)
- Medical Loss Ratio Requirements and Health Insurance Prices (with Patricia H. Born and Kyeonghee Kim)
February 2020 · American Taxation Association Midyear Meeting; Fort Worth, Texas
- Regulatory Capital Planning and Deferred Tax Assets in a Post-Financial Crisis Environment (with Anne C. Ehinger and Cathryn M. Meegan)
January 2020 · American Accounting Association Auditing Midyear Meeting; Houston, Texas
- Enterprise Risk Management and Financial Misconduct (with Chan Li, Lili Sun, and Jianren Xu)
January 2020 · Western Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
- Enterprise Risk Management and Financial Misconduct (with Chan Li, Lili Sun, and Jianren Xu)
November 2019 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Charleston, South Carolina
- Gains Trading as an Earnings Management Tool: The Case of Property-Casualty Insurers (with Kyeonghee Kim and Marc A. Ragin)
- Earnings Reclassification and Insurer Cost of Capital (with James M. Carson and Dan Yang)
- Are There Personal Values in Loss Reserving? (with Olga Kanj and Mary Kelly)
- Enterprise Risk Management and Financial Misconduct (with Jianren Xu)
November 2019 · Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting; Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Tacit Collusion and Contact Across Markets in the Insurance Industry (with Cameron M. Ellis and Juan Zhang)
October 2019 · Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance; Hanoi, Vietnam
- Are Internal Capital Markets Efficient? Evidence of Effective Winner Picking (with James M. Carson, David L. Eckles, and Joshua D. Frederick)
August 2019 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; San Francisco, California
- Do Winners Keep Winning? Evidence of Efficient “Winner Picking” in the Property-Casualty Insurance Industry (with James M. Carson, David L. Eckles, and Joshua D. Frederick)
- Enterprise Risk Management and Financial Misconduct (with Jianren Xu)
- Insurance Solvency Regulation in the Shadows: Evidence and Effects of Informal Regulatory Intervention (with Michael M. Barth and Robert W. Klein)
January 2019 · Western Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Monterey, California
- Accounting Discretion and Loss Reserve Discounting: Evidence from Canada (with David L. Eckles and Mary Kelly)
November 2018 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Orlando, Florida
- Accounting Discretion and Loss Reserve Discounting: Evidence from Canada (with David L. Eckles and Mary Kelly)
- Accounting Discretion and Rate Regulation: Evidence from Property-Casualty Insurer Rate Filings (with Courtney Baggett)
- Health Insurer Financing and the Affordable Care Act (with Courtney Baggett, Joshua D. Frederick, and J. Bradley Karl)
August 2018 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Chicago, Illinois
- Accounting Discretion and Loss Reserve Discounting: Evidence from Canada (with David L. Eckles and Mary Kelly)
July 2018 · Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Singapore
- Accounting Discretion and Loss Reserve Discounting: Evidence from Canada (with David L. Eckles and Mary Kelly)
January 2018 · Western Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Las Vegas, Nevada
- Accounting Discretion and Regulation: Evidence from Health Insurers and the Affordable Care Act (with David L. Eckles)
November 2017 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Nashville, Tennessee
- Tacit Collusion and Contact Across Markets in the Insurance Industry (with Cameron M. Ellis and Juan Zhang)
October 2017 · Financial Management Association Annual Meeting; Boston, Massachusetts
- Medical Loss Ratio Malpractice? (with David L. Eckles)
August 2017 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Toronto, Canada
- Healthy Competition: Direct and Indirect Valuation Effects from Health Insurance Mergers (with Joshua D. Frederick)
- In It to Win It: Evidence of “Winner Picking” in the Property-Casualty Insurance Industry (with James M. Carson, David L. Eckles, and Joshua D. Frederick)
July 2017 · Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association Annual Conference; Poznan, Poland
- Asymmetry in Earnings Management Surrounding Targeted Ratings (with David L. Eckles and Martin Halek)
January 2017 · American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association Annual Meeting; Chicago, Illinois
- Liquidity, Capital Constraints, and Rating Migration in Structured Fixed Income (with Stephen L. Buschbom)
January 2017 · Western Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Santa Barbara, California
- Market Reactions to Enterprise Risk Management Adoption (with Jianren Xu)
- Earnings Management, Executive Compensation, and Ownership Structure (with David L. Eckles, Martin Halek, and Lawrence S. Powell)
- In It to Win It: Evidence of “Winner Picking” in the Property-Casualty Insurance Industry (with James M. Carson, David L. Eckles, and Joshua D. Frederick)
- The Valuation of Health Insurance Mergers in the Pre- and Post-Affordable Care Act Periods (with Joshua D. Frederick)
November 2016 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Savannah, Georgia
- Medical Loss Ratio Malpractice? (with David L. Eckles)
- Accruals Quality and Analyst Forecast Accuracy: Evidence from the Property-Casualty Insurance Industry (with In Jung (Anna) Song)
- Managerial Style and Accounting Discretion: Evidence from the Property-Casualty Insurance Industry
- The Valuation of Health Insurance Mergers in the Pre- and Post-Affordable Care Act Periods (with Joshua D. Frederick)
October 2016 · Financial Management Association Annual Meeting; Las Vegas, Nevada
- Asymmetry in Earnings Management Surrounding Targeted Ratings (with David L. Eckles and Martin Halek)
September 2016 · European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists Annual Meeting; Limassol, Cyprus
- Asymmetric Earnings Management Responses to Targeted Ratings (with David L. Eckles and Martin Halek)
August 2016 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Medical Loss Ratio Malpractice? (with David L. Eckles)
May 2016 · Florida State University / University of Georgia Research Symposium; Tallahassee, Florida
- Target Capital Structure and Financial Strength Ratings
- The Valuation of Health Insurance Mergers in the Pre- and Post-Affordable Care Act Periods (with Joshua D. Frederick)
November 2015 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; New Orleans, Louisiana
- Market Reactions to Enterprise Risk Management Adoption (with Jianren Xu)
- Ratings: It’s Accrual World (with James M. Carson and David L. Eckles)
August 2015 · World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress; Munich, Germany
- Target Financial Strength Ratings and Insurer Loss Reserve Errors (with David L. Eckles and Martin Halek)
- Managerial Overconfidence and Earnings Management (with Thomas R. Berry-Stölzle and Jianren Xu)
- Ratings: It’s Accrual World (with James M. Carson and David L. Eckles)
- Market Reactions to Enterprise Risk Management Adoption (with Jianren Xu)
May 2015 · Florida State University / University of Georgia Research Symposium; Athens, Georgia
- Financial Strength Ratings and Loss Reserve Volatility (with James M. Carson and David L. Eckles)
January 2015 · Western Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Scottsdale, Arizona
- Managerial Overconfidence and Earnings Management (with Thomas R. Berry-Stölzle and Jianren Xu)
- Target Financial Strength Ratings and Insurer Loss Reserve Errors (with David L. Eckles and Martin Halek)
November 2014 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Charleston, South Carolina
- Managerial Overconfidence and Earnings Management (with Thomas R. Berry-Stölzle and Jianren Xu)
- Target Financial Strength Ratings and Insurer Loss Reserve Errors — Ph.D. Student Colloquium Presentation (with David L. Eckles and Martin Halek)
August 2014 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Seattle, Washington
- Managerial Overconfidence and Earnings Management (with Thomas R. Berry-Stölzle and Jianren Xu)
- Earnings Management, Executive Compensation, and Ownership Structure (with David L. Eckles, Martin Halek, and Lawrence S. Powell)
August 2014 · 1st Annual S.S. Huebner Foundation Doctoral Colloquium; Seattle, Washington
- Earnings Management, Executive Compensation, and Ownership Structure (with David L. Eckles, Martin Halek, and Lawrence S. Powell)
November 2013 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Orlando, Florida
- Dynamic Determinants of Corporate Diversification: Property-Liability Insurers’ Decision to Enter into a New Line of Business (with Jennifer R. Atkinson and Thomas R. Berry-Stölzle)
- Executive Compensation and Loss Reserve Management: An Examination of Mutual and Stock Insurers (with David L. Eckles, Martin Halek, and Lawrence S. Powell)

Discussant Talks

August 2026 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Orlando, Florida — The Rise in Insurance Costs for Commercial Properties: Causes, Effects on Rents, and the Role of Owners (Minjoo Kim, Prateek Mahajan, and Zirui Wang).
August 2025 · World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress; Calgary, Canada — Unrealized Losses Recognition and Interest Rate Risk Hedging for Insurance Firms (Selim Mankai).
August 2024 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Denver, Colorado — Claims Adjudication, Insurance Distribution Channel, and Customer Satisfaction (Mark J. Browne, Kerry McCabe, David M. Pooser, and Andreas Richter).
April 2024 · Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting; St. Petersburg, Florida — Bank Risk Management and Systemic Risk: Global Evidence (Samuel W. Adams, Larry Fauver, Alvaro G. Taboada, and Lauren Milbach).
August 2023 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Washington, D.C. — How Life Insurer Attributes Affect Consumer Purchase Behavior: Experimental Insights on the Role of Financial Strength, Sustainability, Service Quality and Type of Customer Touchpoint (Moritz Hanika and Nadine Gatzert).
August 2021 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Virtual — Contemporaneous versus Traditional Measures of Reserve Errors: The Effect of Monitors on Earnings Management (Martin F. Grace and J. Tyler Leverty).
June 2021 · Canadian Academic Accounting Association Annual Meeting; Virtual — Taxes and Corporate Investment Behaviour: Evidence from the Halloween Massacre of 2006 (Matthew Boland and Khin Phyo Hlaing).
November 2020 · Southern Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Virtual — Enterprise Risk Management and Mergers and Acquisitions: Evidence from the Insurance Industry (Yunhe Li, Steve Miller, and Tina Yang).
August 2020 · World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress; Virtual — Tort Reform and Physician Moral Hazard (Juan Zhang).
August 2019 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; San Francisco, California — Conditional Conservatism and Insolvency Risk (J. David Cummins, Mary A. Weiss, and Juan Zhang).
August 2018 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Chicago, Illinois — Improving Performance of Non-Insurance Companies with Insurance Companies (Jing Rong Goh) and Underwriting Discipline and Investment Risk Taking in the Property-Liability Insurance Industry (Anastasia Ivantsova and J. Tyler Leverty).
August 2017 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Toronto, Ontario — Modeling the Risk of a Policyholder Run (Tobias Huber and Johannes G. Jaspersen).
August 2016 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Cambridge, Massachusetts — Are Loss Reserves and Internal Capital Markets Substitutes? (Thomas R. Berry-Stölzle, James M. Carson, and In Jung (Anna) Song).
August 2015 · World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress; Munich, Germany — Enterprise Risk Management Sophistication and Firm Risk (James Barrese, Stephen G. Fier, David M. Pooser, and Paul L. Walker).
August 2014 · American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting; Seattle, Washington — CEO Overconfidence, Litigation Risk, and the Demand for Directors and Officers Insurance (Jeffrey Boles, Yevgeniy Davydov, and Jacqueline Volkman-Wise).

Panels

February 2026 — Research Trends. Ph.D. Student Research Symposium; Athens, Georgia.
February 2025 — From Assistant to Full Professor. Ph.D. Student Research Symposium; Athens, Georgia.
February 2023 — Early Career Advice from Mid-Career Colleagues. Ph.D. Student Research Symposium; Athens, Georgia.
February 2022 — A Career in Academia: What to Expect. Ph.D. Student Research Symposium; Athens, Georgia.
February 2020 — A Young Person’s Guide to the Publication Process. Ph.D. Student Research Symposium; Athens, Georgia.
January 2019 — From Ph.D. Program to Faculty Member. Ph.D. Student Research Symposium; Athens, Georgia.
February 2017 — Job Market. Ph.D. Student Research Symposium; Athens, Georgia.