Neil A. Doherty, University of Pennsylvania, USA Neil A. Doherty is a Frederick H. Ecker Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at the Wharton University of Pennsylvania (since 1986). He holds a Bachelors of Philosophy degree and a Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of York. From 1975 to 1976 he was economic advisor to the UK Government Economic Service.
In 1979 he earned a PhD at the Cranfield Institute of Technology. Dr. Doherty’s research areas include Insurance pricing; optimal insurance; financial intermediaries; asset/liability management for insurers; insurance economics; risk management.He is a consultant for Amerco, Dow Chemical, Sears Roebuck, British Petroleum, Merck, GTE, CIGNA, U.P.S and his studies include: Insurance and the design of liability rules; Crises and cycles in insurance markets; Adverse selection in insurance markets; Securitization of catastrophe risk.
Dr. Dorherty holds the Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award (1997) and the Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Teaching Award (1998 and 2001). He is editor of the Geneva Papers on Risk Insurance Theory.
His representative publications include: "Insurance Cycles: Interest Rates and the Capacity Constraint Model", Journal of Business 68.3 (July 1995 with J. Garven), "Adverse Selection, Commitment and Renegotiation: Extension to and Evidence From Insurance Markets", Journal of Political Economy 102 (1994, with G. Dionne) and "Adverse Selection with Endogenous Information in Insurance Markets", Journal of Public Economics 63 (1996, with P.Thistle). |