Harris Schlesinger

Specialty Areas:

Insurance, Finance Theory, Economics of Uncertainty.

Education:

SUNY College at Potsdam (B.A. and M.A.), University of Illinois (M.S. and Ph.D.).

Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:

Dr. Schlesinger is past president of the American Risk and Insurance Association. He has served in the past as the rate-hearings officer in the state of Alabama, for insurance rate increases. He has held visiting appointments in Belgium, France and Germany and currently holds an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Konstanz (Germany). He was the founding editor of the GENEVA PAPERS on Risk and Insurance Theory and currently is an associate editor for five academic journals. His research papers have won several awards and he has received the Minerva award as outstanding alumnus from his undergraduate college. Dr. Schlesinger has been a Research Fellow for the CPU Harry J. Loman Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Science Center in Berlin (Germany), the Center for Economic Studies (Germany) and the Center for Intercollegiate Studies in Management Science (Belgium). He is currently a Senior Research Fellow with CESifo, a European-based economic policy organization. He has published articles in more than two dozen journals, including the Journal of Finance, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Journal of Economic Theory.

Publications

• "A Good Sign for Multivariate Risk taking." Management Science. (With L. Eeckhoudt and B. Rey.) January 2007.
• "Putting Risk in its Proper Place. American Economic Review. (With L. Eeckhoudt.) May 2006.
• "Multiplicative Background Risk." Management Science. (With G. Franke and R. Stapleton.) January 2006.
• "Adverse Selection in an Insurance Market with Government-Guaranteed Subsistence Levels." Journal of Risk and Insurance. (With B. Kim.) May 2005.
• "Coping with Credit Risk." Journal of Risk Finance. (With H. Louberg) March 2005.
• "Economic and Financial Decisions under Risk." Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press (With L. Eeckhoudt and C. Gollier.) January 2005.
• "Changes in Risk and Asset Prices." Journal of Monetary Economics. (With C. Gollier.) May 2002.
• "The No Loss Offset Provision and the Attitude Towards Risk of a Risk-neutral Firm." Journal of Public Economics. (With L. Eeckhoudt and C. Gollier.) August 1997.
• "Risk Aversion in Rent-Seeking and Rent-Augmenting Games." Economic Journal. (With K. Konrad). November 1997.
• "Changes in Background Risk and Risk-Taking Behavior." Econometrica. (With L. Eeckhoudt and C. Gollier.) May 1996.
• "Optimal Hedging in a Futures Market with Background Noise and Basis Risk." European Economic Review (With E. Briys and M. Crouhy.) January 1993.
• "Increases in Risk and Deductible Insurance." Journal of Economic Theory. (With L. Eeckhoudt and C. Gollier.) December 1991.
• "Optimal Hedging Under Intertemporally Dependent Preferences." Journal of Finance. (With E. Briys and M. Crouhy.) September 1990.
• "Rational Insurance Purchasing: Consideration of Contract Nonperformance." Quarterly Journal of Economics. (With N. Doherty.) February 1990.