Professor Neil A. Doherty
Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor of Insurance and Risk Management
Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
304 Colonial Penn Center
3641 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6218

Dr. Doherty serves as Ronald A. Rosenfeld Professor, at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he taught at the University of Alberta and at the University of Illinois. Professor Doherty has also served as Economic Adviser, U.K. Government Economic Service. He was Editor of Geneva Papers on Risk Insurance Theory from 1999 to 2003. In addition, he has performed consulting for Amerco, Dow Chemical, Sears Roebuck, British Petroleum, Merck, GTE, CIGNA, and U.P.S. Professor Doherty's research areas include: Insurance pricing; optimal insurance; financial intermediaries; asset/liability management for insurers; insurance economics; and risk management. His current studies include: Insurance and the design of liability rules; Crises and cycles in insurance markets; Adverse selection in insurance markets; Securitization of catastrophe risk. He has also published widely in the field, including: (with J. Garven) "Insurance Cycles: Interest Rates and the Capacity Constraint Model." Journal of Business 68.3 (July 1995); (with G. Dionne) "Adverse Selection, Commitment and Renegotiation: Extension to and Evidence From Insurance Markets." Journal of Political Economy 102 (1994); (with P.Thistle) "Adverse Selection with Endogenous Information in Insurance Markets." Journal of Public Economics 63 (1996).