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  MARTIN F. GRACE, PhD, JD
 
     
 


Martin F. Grace is Associate Director and Research Associate of the Center for Risk Management and Insurance Research. Dr. Grace's research has been published in various journals in economics and insurance concerning the economics and public policy aspects of insurance regulation and taxation. In particular, Dr. Grace has undertaken various studies of the efficiency of insurance firms, insurance taxation, optimal regulation of insurance in a federal system, and solvency regulation. Dr. Grace is a former President of The Risk Theory Society and he is a current associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance.

Dr. Grace earned both a Ph.D. in economics and a J.D. from the University of Florida in 1987. He joined the faculty of the Department of Risk Management and Insurance as an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies in the fall of 1987. In 1993 Dr. Grace was promoted to Associate Professor with appointments in both Legal Studies and Risk Management and Insurance. In 1998 Dr. Grace was promoted to Professor of Legal Studies and Risk Management and Insurance and in 2002, Professor Grace was named the James S. Kemper Professor of Risk Management.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
   
  "Regulatory Solvency Prediction in Property-Liability Insurance: Risk Based Capital, Audit Ratios, and Cash Flow Simulation Models" with J. David Cummins and Richard Phillips, Journal of Risk and Insurance 66(3): 417-458.
   
  "Risk Based Capital and Solvency Screening in Property-Liability Insurance," with Robert Klein and Scott Harrington, the Journal of Risk and Insurance 65 (June 1998): 213-244
   
   
SELECTED WORKING PAPERS:
   
  "Household Life Cycle Protection: Life Insurance Holdings, Financial Vulnerability and Portfolio Implications" (coauthored with Yijia Lin, 2005)
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  "Dupes or Incompetents? An Examination of Management’s Impact on Property-Liability Insurer Distress" (coauthored with Tyler Leverty, 2004)
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The Effect of Liberalization and Deregulation on Life Insurer Efficiency (coauthored with Thitivadee Boonyasa and Harold D. Skipper Jr., 2002)
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"The Effect of Banking and Insurance on the Growth of Capital and Output" (Ian P. Webb and Harold D. Skipper Jr., 2002)
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MARTIN GRACE, PhD
James S. Kemper Professor of Risk Management and Insurance and
RMI Doctoral Program Coordinator
(404) 651-2789
mgrace@gsu.edu

Education
Ph.D., University of Florida (1986)
J.D., University of Florida (1986)
M.A., University of Florida (1981)
B.A., University of New Hampshire (1980)
   
Specializations
Government Regulation and Taxation of the Insurance Industry
Catastrophes and the Insurance Industry
Industrial Organization of the Insurance Industry
   
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