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Give Employees Cash to Purchase Their Own Health Insurance
Employers’ and employees’ health care costs continue to skyrocket. A solution is to allow employers to give employees pre-tax cash to purchase their own health insurance. This move, enabled by a newly enacted federal rule, would put competitive pressure on insurers,... View Details
- April 1987
- Background Note
Note on Accounting for Property and Casualty Insurance Companies
By: Andre F. Perold
Perold, Andre F. "Note on Accounting for Property and Casualty Insurance Companies." Harvard Business School Background Note 287-082, April 1987.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Detecting Anomalous Patterns of Care Using Health Insurance Claims
By: Sriram Somanchi, Edward McFowland III and Daniel B. Neill
- October 1978 (Revised September 1993)
- Case
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co.: Treaty Reinsurance
Oksman, Warren. "Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co.: Treaty Reinsurance." Harvard Business School Case 179-061, October 1978. (Revised September 1993.)
- 26 Sep 2024
- News
Helene Could Expose Deeper Flaws in Florida’s Insurance Market
- November 2013
- Case
Choosing Health Insurance Coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
By: Robert C. Pozen, Katherine Brooks and Iwan Djanali
- Research Summary
Is Deposit Insurance a Good Idea, and if so, Who Should Pay for it?
Joint work with Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, Oxford.
Deposit insurance schemes are becoming increasingly popular around the world and yet there is little understanding... View Details
- February 2015
- Supplement
The Affordable Care Act (D): Making a Decision on the Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Tax Exclusion
By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris
In the summer of 2009, a meeting is called in the White House to discuss the impact of changing the rules on the employer-sponsored health insurance tax exclusion. View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Policy; Health; Government and Politics; Health Industry; United States
Bower, Joseph L., and Michael Norris. "The Affordable Care Act (D): Making a Decision on the Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Tax Exclusion." Harvard Business School Supplement 315-035, February 2015.
- Article
Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market
By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Reaching for yield—the propensity to buy riskier assets in order to achieve higher yields—is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyzes this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for... View Details
Keywords: Fixed Income; Reaching For Yield; Financial Intermediation; Insurance Companies; Insurance; Assets; Bonds; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Insurance Industry
Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market." Journal of Finance 70, no. 5 (October 2015): 1863–1902.
- Article
Informal Family Insurance and the Design of the Welfare State
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We study unemployment benefit provision when the family also provides social insurance. In the benchmark case, more generous State transfers crowd out family risk-sharing one-for-one. An extension gives the State an advantage in enforcing transfers through taxes... View Details
Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Informal Family Insurance and the Design of the Welfare State." Economic Journal 112, no. 477 (February 2002): 481–503.
- 2019
- Case
Smith Brothers Insurance: Managing Successions at a Growing Insurance Agency
By: Jason Pananos and A.J. Wasserstein
Pananos, Jason, and A.J. Wasserstein. "Smith Brothers Insurance: Managing Successions at a Growing Insurance Agency." Yale School of Management Case 19-012, 2019.
- 08 Jul 2024
- News
Home Insurance Rates in America Are Wildly Distorted. Here’s Why.
- 21 May 2020
- News
Primary Care Is Hurting: Why Aren’t Private Insurers Pitching In?
- 03 Jun 2021
- News
Insurance to Mitigate the Risk of AI Systems Coming into View
- January 1992
- Teaching Note
New York Life Insurance Co.: Pension Department, Teaching Note
By: Robert J. Dolan
Teaching Note for (9-591-051). View Details
- 05 Jun 2024
- News
Us Senate Searches for Fix to Homeowners Insurance Woes
- 20 Jul 2016
- News
Why the Justice Dept may block health insurer mergers
- October 2012
- Article
The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums
By: Ronen Avraham, Leemore S. Dafny and Max Schanzenbach
Avraham, Ronen, Leemore S. Dafny, and Max Schanzenbach. "The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 28, no. 4 (October 2012): 657–686.