CALL FOR PAPERS

                       MICROINSURANCE CONFERENCE

                                Senegal
                         3rd-5th November 2009

         Special edition of the Journal of Risk and Insurance


      The poor are particularly vulnerable to risk - especially
      those in developing countries. While informal risk
      management mechanisms (such as family risk sharing) exist
      and are sometimes used to mitigate risks, these are, at
      best, a limited response. Although insurance is rarely
      available or affordable, an increasing number of
      microinsurance programs have been established as either
      pilot or as ongoing structures in recent years. Despite the
      growing policy interest in microinsurance, little academic
      attention has been focused on this marketplace.
      Accordingly, the Journal of Risk and Insurance invites
      papers for a special issue that will focus on
      microinsurance.


      TOPICS:

      Empirical, theoretical and policy papers are invited on
      topics such as:

      - Design of microinsurance systems
      - Adverse selection and moral hazard
      - Effectiveness and sustainability
      - Distribution mechanisms
      - Crowding out, and crowding in, of alternative risk
        management mechanisms
      - Relationship to microfinance programs
      - Regulatory policy
      - Etc.


      FURTHER DETAILS:

      The papers will be presented in a scientific track at this
      year's 5th International Microinsurance Conference. The
      conference is hosted by the Munich Re Foundation and the
      Microinsurance Network, with the support of the Conference
      Interafricaine des Marches d'Assurances (CIMA), the African
      Insurance Organisation (AIO), the International Labour
      Organization (ILO), and the Journal of Risk and Insurance.
      A special edition of the Journal of Risk and Insurance will
      be devoted to microinsurance and papers presented at the
      conference may be considered for this edition. Limited
      travel grants will be available for presenters. Additional
      information on the conference is online at:

                http://www.microinsuranceconference2009.org


      SCIENTIFIC REVIEW COMMITTEE:

      - Richard D. Phillips
        Georgia State University
        Committee Chair and Co-Editor, JRI
      - Samuel H. Cox
        University of Manitoba
      - Craig Churchill
        Chair of the Microinsurance Network
      - Neil H. Doherty
        University of Pennsylvania
      - Olivier Mahul
        The World Bank


      PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

      Please submit proposals electronically to:

      Email:         MAILTO:jri@hec.ca

      as file attachment in Acrobat (.pdf) or Word (.doc) format
      by May 15th, 2009. Authors of accepted papers will be
      notified by June 15th, 2009 and completed papers will be
      due by September 1st, 2009.

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Posted 5/4/09