Faculty in the News

2016

• Shing-Yi Wang  -  Open doors but different laws, Economist  -  09/10/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Older Adults Place Less Value on Saving, AAII  -  09/01/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Women In Their 50s More Financially Fragile Than Generation Ago Say Researchers, Linkedin  -  09/01/2016
• Shing-Yi Wang  -  UAE labour mobility reforms create winners and losers, The National   -  08/20/2016
• David F Babbel  -  In planning for retirement, what life expectancy should the average person use to make sure they have saved enough?, WalletHub  -  08/15/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Patience Is the Secret to Wealth and Health, Economists Suggest in a New Study, Wall Street Journal  -  08/01/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  En entredicho, sistema de administradoras de fondos, Eleconomista  -  07/27/2016
• Kent Smetters  -  What Does Federal Budget Policy Mean For Your Bottom Line?, KJZZ 91.5  -  07/11/2016
• Heather Schofield  -  The Economics of Ramadan, The Economist  -  07/02/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  5 Tips to Help Women Work Longer, Next Avenue  -  06/30/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  401(k) Investment Options: Less is More, Squared Away Blog  -  06/30/2016
• Kent Smetters  -  Social Security to run dry three years sooner than expected: study, The Hill  -  06/30/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Financial Knowledge Leads to Better Retirement Savings Behavior, Plansponsor  -  06/27/2016
• Katja Seim  -  FCC taps Penn professor for economist role, The Hill  -  06/10/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  RETIREMENT SECURITY IN PHILADELPHIA: An Analysis of Current Conditions and Paths to Better Outcomes, Philadelphia Comptroller  -  05/31/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Pemex’s Pension Problem: Why the Oil Giant Is on Slippery Ground, Knowledge@Wharton  -  05/27/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Here’s How to Help More Americans Boost Their Social Security Benefits, Time  -  05/19/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  DISCUSSION: Here’s How to Get More People to Delay Claiming Social Security, The Financial Exchange  -  05/10/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Here’s How to Get More People to Delay Claiming Social Security, Wall Street Journal  -  05/09/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  A new idea for solving Social Security's money troubles, Philly.com  -  05/09/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The US public pensions crisis ‘is really hard to fix’, Financial Times  -  05/01/2016
• Kent Smetters  -  Planning For Your Retirement: Understanding Annuities, NPR  -  04/27/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Opinion: Why a lump-sum payment should be part of Social Security, Market Watch  -  04/11/2016
• Shing-Yi Wang  -  Wages of chagrin, Economist   -  04/09/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Variable Annuities, Lifetime Income Guarantees, and Investment Downside Protection, Trends and Issues  -  03/31/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  California debates a retirement savings fix, Market Place  -  03/30/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  How to Get People to Delay Retirement, Wall Street Journal  -  03/20/2016
• Robert Jensen  -  How can we promote gender equality in the workforce?, PBS  -  03/04/2016
• Judd B. Kessler  -  The job search, AM New York  -  03/03/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -   Investment over the Life Cycle: Inertia and Financial Advice, House of Finance  -  03/01/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Geldanlage: Verstehen Sie Sparen?, Spiegel Online  -  02/23/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Who’ll Pay for Americans to Live to 100?, Next Avenue  -  02/08/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Are Too Many Choices Costing 401(k) Holders?, Wall Street Journal  -  02/07/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Streamlining the Plan Menu, Plansponsor  -  02/01/2016
• Michael Sinkinson  -  Paywalls are not the answer for every media organization, Associated Press  -  01/29/2016
• Kent Smetters  -  Annuities as an Alternative to Shaky Markets? Not So Fast, New York Times  -  01/29/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  2016's best and worst states to retire, WalletHub  -  01/25/2016
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Few ways to improve your odds for record $700 million Powerball, The Press Democrat  -  01/07/2016

2015

• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Streamlined DC Investment Menu Could Save Participants Millions, Plansponsor  -  12/30/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  To Delay Social Security Claiming, Offer Lump Sum Benefit: Report, ThinkAdvisor  -  12/10/2015
• Heather Schofield  -  A bad night’s sleep might do more harm than you think., NPR  -  12/02/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Target Date Funds: Top 3 for Each Retirement Period, Yahoo! Finance  -  11/25/2015
• Joseph Harrington  -  Oakland’s Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Move To Block An Open Market, BuzzFeed News  -  11/12/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Obama's MyRA Retirement Savings Plan Goes Nationwide, Bloomberg Business  -  11/04/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  What the U.S. can learn from Chile’s retirement system, Fortune  -  10/29/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Retirement Living: Debt holds many Boomers back, USA Today  -  10/21/2015
• Corinne Low  -  Can't Afford School? Girls Learn to Negotiate the Harvard Way, NPR  -  10/08/2015

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• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Loan is not a four-letter word, Vanguard Blog for Institutional Investors  -  10/07/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Yes, Chilean Personal Retirement Accounts Work, Investors.com  -  10/05/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Baby Boomer Women and the Burden of Debt, Wall Street Journal  -  10/01/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Pension advances draw scrutiny, Market Place  -  09/29/2015
• Joseph Harrington  -  We need to hit individual managers involved in cartels where it really hurts and put them in prison, Punto Edu  -  09/11/2015
• Corinne Low  -  IVF availability ‘allows women to delay having babies and pursue careers’, The Guardian  -  08/22/2015

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• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  What really happens when pensions disappear, CNBC  -  07/24/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  10 top women in economics, Agenda  -  07/23/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Choice a Detriment to Public Worker Retirement Savings, Plansponsor  -  07/20/2015
• Heather Schofield  -  The economics of sleep., Freakonomics Radio  -  07/16/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Financial Literacy Among CEOs and CFOs on LinkedIn, Plansponsor  -  07/13/2015
• Joseph Harrington  -  Wage suppression: The fine print in Boston 2024's job creation promises, The Bay State Examiner  -  07/13/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Leakage from 401(k) loans, defaults is greater than thought, benefitspro  -  07/01/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  GFOR: Adding annuities to DC plans still open to debate, Pensions & Investments  -  06/25/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Why people don’t buy long-term-care insurance, MarketWatch  -  06/25/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  With long-term care coverage so costly, what do the pros do?, Philly.com  -  06/22/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Why People Don’t Buy Long-Term-Care Insurance, Wall Street Journal  -  06/14/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Powell: How to fix America's retirement problems, USA Today  -  05/21/2015
• Joseph Harrington  -  Why the Google Antitrust Case Is a ‘Step in the Negotiation Process’, Knowledge@Wharton  -  05/01/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Sponsors’ Approach to Loans Affects Retirement Plan Leakage, Plansponsor  -  04/20/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  When one partner makes more than the other, CNN Money  -  04/20/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  New Proposed Rules for Retirement Investments, Market Place  -  04/15/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  One Economics Book We All Should Read, Wall Street Journal  -  04/15/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The Biggest Hit to Your Retirement Savings: Living Too Long, NY Times  -  04/03/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Retirement plans adding annuities, Consumers Digest  -  03/31/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  A Three-Question Test of Financial Literacy, Wall Street Journal  -  03/25/2015
• Joseph Harrington  -  Vigor of Imperial Seen as Issue in Reynolds/Lorillard Merger, Financial News  -  03/24/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Higher financial literacy would benefit everyone, Philly.com  -  03/16/2015
• Kent Smetters  -  How bank stress tests are like restaurant inspections, Market Place  -  03/12/2015
• Kent Smetters  -  Americans Aren’t Saving Enough for Retirement, but One Change Could Help, NY Times  -  03/03/2015
• Michael Sinkinson  -  Why words are the new numbers, Capital Ideas, Chicago Booth  -  03/02/2015
• Kent Smetters  -  White House Move To Protect Nest Eggs Sparks Hopes And Fears, NPR  -  02/27/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  NYC comptroller announces group to study retirement plan for private-sector employees, Pensions & Investments  -  02/27/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Delay Social Security, get a bonus?, Bankrate  -  02/11/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  A Retirement Age of 100? It’s Coming, Wall Street Journal  -  02/09/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The Timing of Pension Payouts and Social Security Claiming, NBER  -  02/06/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Late Retirement Bonus: How the Government can Incentivize Working Longer, Chicago Policy Review  -  01/30/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Fiduciary Re-Proposal, Fee Disclosures On Deck for 2015; MEPs Wait in the Wings, Bloomberg BNA  -  01/16/2015 
• Kent Smetters  -  7 Ways to Jump-Start Your Retirement Savings in 2015, US News  -  01/05/2015
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Easing Into Leisure, One Step at a Time, NY Times  -  01/02/2015

2014

• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Annuities, IRAs and other retirement game-changers, MarketWatch  -  12/29/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Decision on pension payout will last a lifetime, The Boston Globe  -  12/21/2014
• Kent Smetters  -  Where is your extra gas money going?, Market Place  -  12/16/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Congress Says It Has to Cut Pensions to Save Them, Bloomberg  -  12/11/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  One weird trick to shore up Social Security's finances (really), Vox  -  11/18/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Female Financial Advisers Sought as Boomers Need Planning, Bloomberg  -  11/18/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Can stock purchase plans help contain 401(k) loans?, FierceCFO  -  11/17/2014
• Kent Smetters  -  Health-Care Hangover: Enrollment Challenges Persist, Wall Street Journal  -  11/14/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Why Prenups Aren’t Just for Financial Issues, Wall Street Journal Blog  -  11/12/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  With court's approval, Detroit emerges from bankruptcy, Los Angles Times  -  11/07/2014
• Kent Smetters  -  How the U.S. might get to wage growth, Market Place  -  11/07/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Pension problem: What to do if the PGW deal is dead, Philly.com  -  10/31/2014
• Kent Smetters  -  SHARE IT! Europe v China: Whose economic woes pain America more?, Market Place  -  10/21/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Cities Are Eliminating the Healthcare Benefits Once Promised to Retirees, The Atlantic  -  10/14/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Student loans plus financial illiteracy equals big debts for some older women, The Washington Post  -  10/03/2014
• Michael Sinkinson  -  Watch List, Wharton Magazine  -  09/29/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Retirement and debt usually don't mix, Consumer Affairs  -  09/19/2014

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• Joseph Harrington  -  Is Amazon Taking Over the World?, New York Times/Scholastic  -  09/15/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Better no Social Security replacement rates than wrong replacement rates, AEI-Ideas  -  09/03/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Boomer Wealth Dented by Mortgages Poses U.S. Risk, Bloomberg  -  08/28/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Comisión Pensiones sesiona por primera vez con integrantes internacionales, Comisionpensiones  -  08/20/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  2014 RRC Meeting: Olivia S. Mitchell, Youtube  -  08/20/2014
• Judd B. Kessler  -  One way to boost organ donations: Just keep asking, The Washington Post  -  08/18/2014
• Benjamin B. Lockwood  -  The case for a maximum wage, Vox  -  08/06/2014
• Joseph Harrington  -  Smoke Signals: What the Reynolds-Lorillard Merger Means for the Tobacco Industry, Knowledge at Wharton  -  07/30/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Financial Savviness Linked to Better 401(k) Returns, Plansponsor  -  07/07/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Want to Add 130 Bps to Your Clients’ 401(k) Returns? Educate Them, Think Advisior  -  06/30/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The Risks of Taking a 401(k) Loan, US News  -  06/09/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The Financial Sacrifice of Socially Responsible Investing, Wall Street Journal  -  06/05/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Financial knowledge and investment performance. No monkey business?, The Economists  -  06/04/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Get smart and get better 401(k) returns, USA Today  -  05/26/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The Power of Knowledge: Focus on Funds Video, Barrons  -  05/21/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Got Knowledge? Informed Investors Get Juicier 401(k) Returns, Barrons  -  05/19/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  How to Evaluate the Costs of MyRAs, Wall Street Journal  -  05/08/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Cost of living as a retirement priority, Bankrate  -  05/05/2014
• Joseph Harrington  -  Silicon Valley's No-poaching Case: The Growing Debate over Employee Mobility, Knowledge at Wharton  -  04/30/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Why a sale of PGW makes sense, Philly.com  -  04/27/2014
• Benjamin B. Lockwood  -  Study: tax hikes could grow the economy, Vox  -  04/20/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The tweeting professors, Daily Pensylvanian  -  04/18/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Reading, writing, arithmetic - and financial literacy, The Hill  -  04/16/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The 401(k) Loan: America’s Pricey New Piggy Bank, The Fiscal Times  -  04/08/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Exchanging Delayed Social Security Benefits for Lump Sums, Youtube  -  04/08/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The Staggering Statistic Threatening Your Retirement, Time  -  04/07/2014
• Benjamin B. Lockwood  -  Taxation and the distorted allocation of talent, Marginal Revolution  -  04/05/2014
• Michael Sinkinson  -  The Limits of Scale, Harvard Business Review  -  04/01/2014
• Howard Kunreuther  -  No easy fix on flood insurance, but experts say options exist to improve program., NPR  -  03/24/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  A 401(k) Loan? The Answer Isn’t So Obvious, Wall Street Journal  -  03/17/2014
• Howard Kunreuther  -  Maintain the Best Features of Biggert-Waters, The Hill  -  03/06/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Low Rates Haven't Stopped Annuities Sales, Business Week  -  03/06/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Boeing Shifts 26,000 Non-Union Workers In The Seattle Region Away From A Pension, KPLU 88.5  -  03/06/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Advisers Warn Against 401(k) Loans, Wall Street Journal  -  03/03/2014
• Howard Kunreuther  -  Four Tips for Managing Catastrophic Risk , CNBC  -  02/14/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Why Long-Term-Care Coverage Is Right for Me, Wall Street Journal Blog  -  02/13/2014
• Michael Sinkinson  -  The 40 Most Outstanding B-School Profs Under 40 In The World, Poets & Quants  -  02/12/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  10 Ways to Boost Your Retirement Savings, US News  -  02/04/2014
• Kent Smetters  -  A woman quit her job on TV: Good news for the economy?, Market Place  -  02/03/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  For Some, Retirement Is Out of Reach. For Others, Boring., NY Times  -  01/31/2014
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The Secret to Success in a Global Economy, Time  -  01/27/2014

2013

• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Millions of Americans lack basic financial literacy, studies show, Los Angles Times  -  12/27/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Realistic Financial Resolutions for 2014, Wall Street Journal  -  12/26/2013
• Kent Smetters  -  A new app wants to make stock trading free for all, Market Place  -  12/26/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Debt and Retirement, Vanguard Blog  -  12/23/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  As pensions vanish, workers forced to adjust, Dallas News  -  12/21/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Employer Groups Oppose Pension Fees in Budget Deal, Associated Press  -  12/18/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  As Pensions Vanish, Workers Forced to Adjust, Dallas News  -  12/18/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Detroit ruling opens door to pension cuts across the nation, LA Times  -  12/07/2013
• Shing-Yi Wang  -  College kids who cheat are more likely to want government jobs, Houston Chronicle  -  11/20/2013
• Shing-Yi Wang  -  College Kids That Cheat Are More Likely To Want Government Jobs, Business Insider  -  11/20/2013
• Shing-Yi Wang  -  Does Government Work Attract Cheaters?, Bloomberg  -  11/20/2013
• Shing-Yi Wang  -  Government jobs in India attract corrupt youngsters like a magnet: Study, Times of India  -  11/20/2013
• Shing-Yi Wang  -  Cheats want government jobs, research finds, The Telegraph  -  11/19/2013
• Shing-Yi Wang  -  Cheating students 'more likely to want a job in Government', The Independent  -  11/19/2013
• Shing-Yi Wang  -  Cheating Students More Likely to Want Government Jobs, Says Study, Sunshine State News  -  11/19/2013
• Shing-Yi Wang  -  Cheating students more likely to want government jobs, study finds, LA Times  -  11/18/2013
• Shing-Yi Wang  -  How a Jump in Home Ownership Boosted Entrepreneurship in China, Knowlege@Wharton  -  11/12/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Most Americans accumulating debt faster than they’re saving for retirement, Washington Post  -  10/23/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Financial literacy, Radio Times  -  10/21/2013
• Santosh Anagol  -  How can cows be good savings vehicles?, The Economist  -  10/15/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Poll: Half of Older Workers Delay Retirement Plans, ABC News  -  10/14/2013
• Santosh Anagol  -  There's more to 'womenomics' than keeping cows in India, The Guardian  -  10/12/2013
• Howard Kunreuther  -  Disaster relief not flowing to flood victims, Pittsburgh Tribune  -  10/10/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Confusion about Obamacare isn’t unique, MSNBC  -  10/10/2013
• Joseph Harrington  -  Jail for Cartels? Answers from the Expert Who Studied the Chicken Cartel, El Mercurio  -  10/06/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Financial Literacy, Beyond the Classroom, New York Times  -  10/05/2013
• Santosh Anagol  -  Bad investments do good, The Economist  -  10/03/2013
• Joseph Harrington  -  As Regulators Watch Closely, the World Grows Unfriendlier for Cartels, Institutional Investor  -  09/27/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Where did the boomer women go?, Market Place  -  09/27/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Advisers have big role helping plan Social Security benefit, Investment News  -  09/26/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Mortgage debt a threat for near-retirees, Market Watch  -  09/25/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Professor Olivia S. Mitchell Testifies before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, Wharton Public Policy Initiative  -  09/25/2013
• Santosh Anagol  -  'Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism?', The Atlantic  -  09/23/2013
• Santosh Anagol  -  Cows as safe assets, FT Alphaville  -  09/23/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Get an early start on retirement, CNN Money  -  09/16/2013
• Kent Smetters  -  The income annuity puzzle: Why don't more people use them?, Reuters  -  08/19/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Should you pay off your mortgage? Pursue the tactic that offers the highest return on investment, Market Watch  -  08/14/2013
• Kent Smetters  -  Why Don't Retirees Buy Annuities? They Get Something Most Economists Don't, Forbes  -  08/13/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Olivia Mitchell: Make Your Youngster Take This Financial Test, Wall Street Journal  -  08/01/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Why retirement planning requires a really long view, Vanguard  -  07/22/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Olivia Mitchell: Build a Joint ‘Financial Dream’ List, Wall Street Journal  -  07/10/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Investing in Gold, Little India  -  06/19/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Another Discount Rate Illusion, The Economist  -  05/30/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Don't Get 'Framed' When Claiming Social Security, US News  -  05/22/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Should U.S. Pay Workers to Delay Social Security?, Wall Street Journal  -  05/21/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  How to see the world and 'arbitrage' your retirement, Reuters  -  05/17/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Making a Move Abroad, and Working There, Too, New York Times  -  05/16/2013
• Howard Kunreuther  -  Conservatives can make green choices, Climate News Network  -  04/29/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  President Obama looks to reduce Social Security cost of living increases with 'chained CPI', Marketplace  -  04/05/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Personnel pensions on cutting block, ESPN  -  03/20/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  How to retire on just $25,000 in the bank, Marketplace  -  03/19/2013
• Howard Kunreuther  -  Rethinking Flood Insurance Post-Sandy, "Here & Now" WESA-FM (NPR, Pittsburgh),   -  03/08/2013

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  Interview with Howard Kunreuther on the preliminary report by the commission set up by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo about how to deal with future extreme storms.

• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Boeing's latest move confirms nationwide trend to end pensions, KPLU  -  03/01/2013
• Howard Kunreuther  -  "Moral hazard" & Sandy relief: Do federal funds invite disaster?, "Radio Times" National Public Radio  -  02/26/2013

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  Critics of federal disaster aid contend that paying for building along the ocean provides an incentive for unsustainable behavior.  Marty Moss-Coane's interview with Howard Kunreuther, co-director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center and Scott Gabriel Knowles, Drexel University associate professor of History & Politics.  (Audio: http://soundcloud.com/whyy-public-media/the-moral-hazard-sandy-relief).

• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  U.S. Homeowners Are Repeating Their Mistakes, Business Week  -  02/14/2013
• Howard Kunreuther  -  Improving Insurance Decision Making, Forbes.com  -  02/12/2013

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  Op-ed by Howard Kunreuther and Mark Pauly, co-authors of Insurance and Behavioral Economics: Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry.

• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Not Ready to Retire, Knowledge at Wharton Today  -  02/05/2013
• Kent Smetters  -  Prof. Kent Smetters warns that huge obligations for #entitlements could be disastrous if they are not tackled soon, Twitter  -  01/28/2013
• Robert P. Inman  -  Billions in gas drilling royalties transform lives, Associated Press  -  01/27/2013
• Howard Kunreuther  -  Climate and Risk Management, The Weather Channel,  -  01/25/2013

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  From the World Economic Forum in Davos:  Jim Cantore interviews Howard Kunreuther, Wharton Professor of Operations and Information Management (video).

• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Inaugural Speech, Part II, Knowledge at Wharton Today  -  01/22/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Why Aren't You Raising Your Financial IQ?, US News  -  01/14/2013
• Kent Smetters  -  Seven Resolutions to Get Your Nest Egg in Shape , Wall Street Journal  -  01/14/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Olivia Mitchell: Saving Social Security, With Lessons From Down Under, Advisor One  -  01/11/2013
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Why Boeing’s fighting to retire pensions, Business Journal  -  01/11/2013
• Michael Sinkinson  -  Read all about it, The Economist  -  01/08/2013

2012

• Kent Smetters  -  Jobs Report Makes Headlines, Masks Low-Paying Reality , Huffington Post  -  12/07/2012
• Howard Kunreuther  -  Paying for Future Catastrophes, New York Times Sunday Review   -  11/25/2012 
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Medicare Gaps Leave Many With Big Bill at End of Life, Study Finds, HealthDay  -  09/14/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Olivia Mitchell, Kent Smetters, Others Reveal Holes in Retirement Advice, Advisor One  -  08/17/2012
• Kent Smetters  -  Olivia Mitchell, Kent Smetters, Others Reveal Holes in Retirement Advice, Advisor One  -  08/17/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Reforming Jacksonville's pension plans likely to be a long, hard slog , Jackonville.com  -  08/06/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Dr. Olivia S. Mitchell on global financialliteracy  -  07/31/2012 
• Judd B. Kessler  -  The Power of Broadcasting Benevolence, Wharton Blog Network  -  07/31/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  PwC and Knowledge@Wharton High School to Co-host Business and Financial Responsibility Training Seminar for 150 High School Educators, All Expenses Paid, Wharton News  -  07/30/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Is This the Solution to America's Retirement Crisis?, Next Avenue  -  07/27/2012
• Kent Smetters  -  LPL Unit Buys Veritat, Aims to Bring Financial Planning to Masses , Advisor One  -  07/10/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -   Companies win cut in pension contributions; critics say saving the plans is even bigger worry, Washington Post  -  07/09/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  ERISA Advisory Council Meeting Roundup: Annuities, Bloomberg BNA  -  06/15/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Reinventing retirement in challenging times, Tentino  -  06/02/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Reinventere l' età della pensione in tempi di grandi sfide? , Economics Festival in Trento, Italy  -  06/01/2012
• Kent Smetters  -  Dr. Kent Smetters: The 2012 IA 25 Extended Profile, Advisor One  -  05/25/2012
• Judd B. Kessler  -  Facebook’s Organ Donation Success Needs Follow-Up, Bloomberg  -  05/07/2012
• Kent Smetters  -  Courting Gen X now Plan A for advisers, Investment News  -  05/07/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The Changing Face of Retirement, Morning Star  -  05/03/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Stop Financial Illiteracy From Endangering Your Retirement, Next Avenue  -  05/02/2012
• Joseph Harrington  -  Economics expert details game theory during Heath lecture, Institutional Investor  -  04/27/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Compounding Kiwis and interest rates, Project M  -  03/30/2012
• Kent Smetters  -  Professors present unorthodox ideas at BizTalk, The Daily Pennsylvanian  -  02/23/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  GM's Pension Plan May be Replaced with 401k, Nightly Business Report  -  02/16/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  In a calculating, chaotic world, statisticians are almost cool, Philly.com  -  02/16/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Lack of financial literacy can hurt retirement, Reuters.com  -  02/16/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Financial Literacy Low Among Vulnerable Populations: NBER, AdvisorOne  -  02/16/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  How Long Should I Work Before Retirement?: Delaying retirement can significantly boost your nest egg, Chicago Tribune  -  02/14/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  10 Ways to Save Your Retirement, US News  -  02/01/2012
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Q&A: How secure are your retiree benefits?, Wall Street Journal  -  01/27/2012
• Iwan Barankay  -  Internal competition at work: Worth the trouble?, Fortune  -  01/25/2012
• Michael Sinkinson  -  Job Market Ideas That Can Be Explained In Words, Cheap Talk  -  01/05/2012

2011

• Judd B. Kessler  -  30 Under 30 - Law & Policy, Forbes  -  12/19/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  AMR Bankruptcy's Domino Effect, PBS.org  -  12/02/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  You'll Never Guess Who's Influencing How You're Planning For Retirement, Business Insider  -  11/15/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  How Co-Workers Influence Your 401(k) Choices, US News  -  11/14/2011
• Michael Sinkinson  -  Liberal or Conservative, the Problem Is Ignorance, The New York Times  -  11/12/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Poll: Boomers anxiety about retirement grows, MercuryNews.com  -  11/10/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Is student loan, education bubble next?, WJLA.com  -  11/06/2011
• Joseph Harrington  -  Trying to bust cartels, NHH Bulletin  -  11/03/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  New Rules for Retirement, Institutional Investor  -  11/01/2011 
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Editorial, 11/2: Good for grandma, but worries mount, JournalStar  -  11/01/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The debt fallout: How Social Security went ‘cash negative’ earlier than expected, Washington Post  -  10/29/2011
• Judd B. Kessler  -  Researchers look to optimize donations in the United States, The Daily Pennsylvanian  -  10/24/2011
• Judd B. Kessler  -  Something for the weekend, Financial Times  -  10/21/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  What Women Can Teach Us About Money, Forbes.com  -  10/21/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Leakage, ProManage  -  10/09/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Should Top B-Schools Disclose Grades?, Businessweek  -  10/04/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  RIIA names winners of the 2011 Excellence in Communications awards, Investment News  -  10/03/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Treasury Yield Is 7 Basis Points From Record Low on Fed Outlook, Businessweek  -  09/21/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Smetters Sees Risk of U.S. Double-Dip Economic Recession: Video, Bloomberg  -  09/20/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Olivia Mitchell comenta por qué los consumidores jóvenes deberían limitar el gasto, YouTube  -  09/19/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  GOP candidates revive private Social Security idea, Daily Journal  -  09/17/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health, NBER  -  09/17/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Beware of Wall Street's latest 'safe' investment, CNNMoney  -  08/30/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Steve Forbes Interview: Olivia Mitchell, Pension And Retirement Expert, Forbes.com  -  08/29/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Retirement Advice: Don't Get Old, Don't Get Sick, Don't Retire, Forbes.com  -  08/26/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Optimal Portfolio Choice over the Life Cycle with Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Lifetime Payouts, Oxford Journal  -  08/26/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Ed Schultz says Social Security lifts more than a million Floridians out of poverty, PolitFact.com  -  08/25/2011
• Judd B. Kessler  -  Pay to Play: Should Registered Organ Donors Get Priority as Recipients?, Freakonomics Blog  -  08/23/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  How Gender and Personality Count in the Age of Who-Pays-Wins Retirement, Knowledge@Australian School of Business  -  08/16/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Why Standard & Poor’s Downgrade of U.S. Debt Was a No-brainer, Knowledge@Wharton Today  -  08/12/2011
• Iwan Barankay  -  Franc-ly Speaking, Swiss Currency Is Too Strong, NPR  -  08/11/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Baby boomers fret about the rising cost of aging, Philly.com  -  07/31/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  What A Credit Ratings Cut Could Mean For The U.S., NPR.org  -  07/26/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Olivia Mitchell discusses financial literacy at the Global Corporate Center, Global Corporate Center  -  07/14/2011 
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The Top Women in Wealth in 2011, Advisor One  -  07/12/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Wall Street Calm as Rhetoric Over Debt Ceiling Raises Heat in D.C., US News  -  07/01/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Wall Street Calm as Rhetoric Over Debt Ceiling Raises Heat in D.C., US News  -  07/01/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Anatomy of a Debt Default in the United States, ABC News  -  06/29/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Squared Away Blog: Frontiers in Financial Literacy, Financial Security Project  -  06/28/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Should Social Security set a higher age qualification to receive benefits?, Penn Population Studies Center  -  06/27/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Financial Engines and the Pension Research Council Host Second Annual Retirement Income Summit, Traders Huddled  -  06/21/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  3 Questions That Predict Your Retirement Readiness, US News  -  06/10/2011
• Joseph Gyourko  -  US Job Relocation Activity Picks Up Sharply, The Financial Times  -  06/02/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Costly Haravest, Financial Planning  -  06/01/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Get ready for Social Security, Medicare meltdowns, Market Watch  -  05/19/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Begin Social Security Benefits for the Right Reasons, Money  -  05/13/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Report Rebuffs Arguments for Privatizing Social Security, Plan Sponsor  -  05/09/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Http://www.advisorone.com/article/olivia-mitchell-international-foundation-employee-benefit-plans-extended-2011-ia-25-profile, Advisor One  -  04/28/2011
• Fernando Ferreira  -  America's Growing Hispanic Population: Investing in the Future 'Mainstay of Our Labor Force', Knowledge@Wharton  -  04/27/2011
• Joseph Gyourko  -  Revisiting the 'Holy Grail' of Home Ownership, WHYY.org  -  04/18/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Over to you: Workers need to fend for themselves, The Economist  -  04/07/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Sage Financial invests in Wharton professor’s creation, Philadelphia Business Journal  -  04/07/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Paying for Risk and Insurance Higher Ed, Risk & Insurance  -  04/01/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Loan Defaults Costly for Certain Group of Participants, Plan Sponsor  -  04/01/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Nine reasons to be optimistic about retirement, Market Watch  -  03/25/2011
• Joseph Gyourko  -  A Dream Endangered. (Yeah, So?), National Journal.com  -  03/17/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Workplace change spurs 'pension envy', NewsDay.com  -  03/10/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Anger brews over government workers' benefits, Courierpostonline  -  03/08/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Pension Envy: Anger Brews Over Government Workers' Benefits, NBC4i.com  -  03/08/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  (k)Plans:Frame of Reference, Plan Sponsor  -  03/08/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Veritat Advisors President Kent Smetters over Fox Business “The Willis Report”, Logic and Legal Business  -  03/06/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Pensions or 401(k)s: Which is better?, Market Place  -  03/04/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Olivia Mitchell on Why Young Consumers Should Just Say No to Spending, Knowledge@Wharton High School  -  03/03/2011
• Joseph Gyourko  -  When The Roof Fell In, The Economist  -  03/03/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Debate Heats Up Over Public And Private Pensions, NPR.org  -  02/25/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  Social Security: Are We in Crisis Mode Yet?, Knowledge@Wharton Today  -  02/21/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  How to Get Paid $850 for Getting Healthy, Money Watch  -  02/09/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  7 Reasons You Don't Have a Pension, US News  -  02/07/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Savers’ impatience hinders retirement goals, Market Watch  -  02/07/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  4 Traditional Money Rules to Break Now, Smart Money  -  02/07/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Why We're Not Wired for Successful Retirements, US News  -  02/02/2011
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  New Jersey's $53M Pension Problem, Fox 29 News  -  01/04/2011
• Kent Smetters  -  A different approach to high-tech planning, InvestmentNews  -  01/02/2011

2010

• Howard Kunreuther  -  In a networked world, no longer controlling our own destinies, The Washington Post  -  12/29/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Redefining Retirement, AdvisorOne  -  12/28/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Baby boomers near 65 with retirements in jeopardy, KOTA Territory News  -  12/27/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Investment books for budding Warren Buffetts, Market Watch  -  12/23/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Trend of late retirement might be a good thing, Market Place  -  12/22/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  3 Reasons Your Boss Should WANT You to Keep Working Past 60, Money Watch  -  12/20/2010
• Kent Smetters  -  Http://www.hemscott.com/news/comment-archive/item.do?id=119131, HEMSCOTT  -  12/20/2010
• Iwan Barankay  -  What managers should keep in mind before giving out year-end bonuses. , BusinessWeek  -  12/17/2010
• Kent Smetters  -  Is It Time to Invest in Fine Wine?, AdvisorOne  -  12/12/2010
• Kent Smetters  -  Look Before You Reap: Tax-Loss Harvesting Can Backfire, The Wall Street Journal  -  12/11/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Why Women Risk Retirement Disaster, and How They Can Avoid It, AdvisorOne  -  12/08/2010
• Kent Smetters  -  Veritat offers web-based financial planning for everyone, VentureBeat  -  11/22/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Medication nation: Are baby boomers declining, or just whining?, Philly.com  -  11/18/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Politicians helped bring Chicago's public pension funds to the brink, Chicago Tribune  -  11/16/2010 
• Kent Smetters  -  Health Care Impications of the Mid-Term Elections, Yidio  -  11/11/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  ‘Retirewent’…and how to get it back, AdvisorOne  -  10/26/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Financial Literacy Brigades, AdvisorOne  -  10/26/2010
• Kent Smetters  -  National debt crisis: how to raise revenue, Medill Washington  -  10/07/2010
• Joseph Gyourko  -  The Housing Bubble Trouble, National University of Singapore's Institute of Real Estate Studies. The Straits Times  -  09/29/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Who Says Women Can't Get Rich Investing?, The Motley Fool  -  09/28/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  How Boomers Can Act Now to Repair Their Nest Egg, US News  -  09/15/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Olivia Mitchell to Get RIIA Award at Annual Meeting, Business Week  -  09/03/2010
• Kent Smetters  -  Veritat Offers Comprehensive, Fee-Only Financial Planning Services that are Affordable and Scalable, Annuit Digest  -  09/01/2010
• Joseph Gyourko  -  Can Interest Rates Explain the U.S. Housing Boom and Bust?, VOX-EU with Edward Glaeser, Joshua Gottlieb  -  08/28/2010
• Joseph Gyourko  -  Devalued Homes Anchor Prospective Job Seekers, NPR, "Morning Edition"  -  08/26/2010
• Kent Smetters  -  Preparing for the Next 'Black Swan', The Wall Street Journal  -  08/21/2010
• Kent Smetters  -  Veritat Advisors President Kent Smetters on Fox Business "The Willis Report", The Willis Report  -  08/18/2010
• Joseph Gyourko  -  Did Low Interest Rates Cause the Great Housing Convulsion?, Economix, New York Times  -  08/03/2010
• Fernando Ferreira  -  Few in U.S. move for new jobs, fueling fear the economy might get stuck, too, Washington Post  -  07/30/2010
• Joseph Gyourko  -  Just How Risky Are China’s Housing Markets?, VOX-EU, with Yongheng Deng, Jing Wu  -  07/28/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The 2010 Martin Feldstein Lecture – National Bureau of Economic Research, TIAA-CREF  -  07/28/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Retirement Income Gap Poses Another Challenge for Women, The Huffington Post  -  07/21/2010
• Kent Smetters  -  Will the Economic Recovery Run Out of Steam?, Retail Chile  -  07/21/2010
• Robert P. Inman  -  4 reasons why Texas beats California in a recession, Fortune  -  07/13/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Intriguing People of the Week, CNN  -  07/13/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Financial Literacy, 2010 Wharton Impact Conference  -  07/13/2010
• Santosh Anagol  -  Column: What are you paying your mutual fund?, Financial Express  -  07/13/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Fix Social Security by hiking retirement age: A lawmaker suggests raising the retirement age to 70 -- and experts agree, Market Watch  -  07/02/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Calpers and risk: Together forever?, Fortune  -  06/30/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The Economy's Lasting Impact on Your Retirement, U.S. News  -  06/28/2010
• Robert P. Inman  -  Unemployment, not budget practices, to blame for state woes, Washington Post  -  06/22/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Pension Cuts Face Test in Colorado, Minnesota, Wall Street Journal  -  06/11/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  National Retirement Expert: 75 needs to be the new 62, CBSMoneyWatch.com  -  06/02/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Defaulting on Yourself: Who Loses at 401k Loans?, RAND  -  06/01/2010
• Howard Kunreuther  -  What the volcano taught me, Washington Post  -  05/10/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Living Longer, Planning Better, Thestate.com  -  05/09/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The Savings Sweepstakes, Reirement Income Journal  -  05/05/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Who are the 50 Top Women in Wealth?, Wealth Manager  -  05/04/2010
• Kent Smetters  -  Insurance Studies Institute Hosts Successful Fundraising Breakfast in Washington D.C., Insurance Studies Institute  -  05/03/2010 
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Financial Literacy Center, A Joint Center for RAND, Dartmouth College, and The Wharton School, Financial Literacy Center  -  03/15/2010
• Mark V. Pauly  -  American Morning, CNN  -  03/10/2010
• Kent Smetters  -  Insurance Studies Institute Welcomes New Advisory Board Members, Insurance Studies Institute  -  03/02/2010 
• Robert P. Inman  -  Public Policy Gains a Foothold at B-School, BusinessWeek.com  -  03/01/2010
• Mark V. Pauly  -  Morning Edition, NPR  -  02/15/2010
• Howard Kunreuther  -  Overcoming our disaster myopia in Haiti, The Washington Post  -  01/19/2010
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  America's Financial Illiteracy, Forbes.com  -  01/10/2010

2009

• Joseph Gyourko  -  Re-thinking American Dream Of Home Ownership, NPR, “Talk of the Nation”  -  12/15/2009
• Joseph Gyourko  -  5 myths about home sweet homeownership, Washington Post  -  11/15/2009
• Kent Smetters  -  Social Security Strained by Early Retirements, Myway.com  -  09/27/2009
• Howard Kunreuther  -  "At War with Ourselves", Risk & Insurance Magazine  -  09/01/2009
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Financial Literacy: The Time Is Now, BusinessWeek.com  -  07/22/2009
• Joseph Harrington  -  A Blow to Free Competition in the Chilean Pharmaceutical Industry, Knowledge at Wharton  -  05/06/2009
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Pension Problems, Here and Now, WBUR Radio  -  04/10/2009
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Financial Literacy, Reirement Planning, and Retirement Wellbeing: Lessons and Research Gaps, The Retirement Security Project  -  03/20/2009
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  New Strategies for Retirement, 4G Wireless Evolution  -  03/12/2009
• Howard Kunreuther  -  "Focus on Hazards and Climate Change", Natural Hazards Observer  -  03/02/2009
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Video on Crisis and Risk Management, Financial Times  -  01/30/2009

2008

• Howard Kunreuther  -  "Anticipating risks, averting the worst: 3 steps for natural disaster or corporate calamity", The Philadelphia Inquirer  -  12/16/2008
• Joseph Harrington  -  Cartel Talk, Slate  -  12/10/2008
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  Stocks Are Less of Your Net Worth Than You Think, Wall Street Journal Online  -  12/02/2008
• Kent Smetters  -  The Fairness Issue: How to Cope with the Flood of Foreclosures, Knowlege@Wharton  -  11/26/2008
• Kent Smetters  -  Dear President-elect Obama: Here's How to Get the Economy out of the Ditch, Knowlege@Wharton  -  11/12/2008
• Kent Smetters  -  A Billion Here, A Trillion There: Calculating the Cost of Wall Street's Rescue, Knowlege@Wharton  -  10/29/2008
• Kent Smetters  -  How the Credit Crisis Could Forge a New Financial Order, Knowlege@Wharton  -  10/15/2008
• Kent Smetters  -  Avoiding the Tough Issues: The Candidates on Health Care and Entitlements, Knowlege@Wharton  -  10/15/2008
• Olivia S. Mitchell  -  The $700 Billion Question: How Much Is That Exotic Security?, Knowlege@Wharton  -  10/01/2008
• Howard Kunreuther  -  "Flirting with Disaster", Forbes  -  02/11/2008

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2007

• Gregory Nini  -  Good, Bad or Ugly --Is It Impossible to Predict What's Ahead for the U.S. Economy?, Knowlege@Wharton  -  11/14/2007
• Howard Kunreuther  -  "What Is the State of U.S. Disaster-Preparedness?" A Freakonomics Quorum, New York Times  -  11/09/2007

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  Howard Kunreuther was asked by the New York Times' Freakonomics blogger, Stephen Dubner, to respond to the question,"What Is the State of U.S. Disaster-Preparedness?" A Freakonomics Quorum.
• Howard Kunreuther  -  "Who Will Pay for the Next Hurricane?", Radio Station 99.5fm New Orleans  -  09/07/2007

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  Howard Kunreuther is interviewed about his New York Times op-ed, "Who Will Pay for the Next Hurricane?"
• Howard Kunreuther  -  "Who Will Pay for the Next Hurricane?", New York Times  -  08/25/2007

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  Howard Kunreuther authored an op-ed on financing the costs of natural disasters.

2006

• Jean Lemaire  -  Efforts Are Growing to Trim the Fat from Employees -- and Employers' Health Care Costs, Knowlege@Wharton  -  11/01/2006
• Howard Kunreuther  -  SNL Interactive, Q&A: Howard Kunreuther, SNL Financial  -  07/17/2006

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  The Risk Center's Howard Kunreuther is interviewed by Thames Schoenvogel of SNL Financial about the history of the Risk Center and its current Natural Disaster Insurance Project.
• Neil A Doherty  -  Leveraging Risk Management, Knowlege@Wharton  -  03/01/2006

2005

• Neil A Doherty  -  Are Eliot Spitzer's Insurance Lawsuits Hitting the Wrong Targets?, Knowlege@Wharton  -  10/19/2005
• Neil A Doherty  -  The Financial Risks of Terrorism: Balancing Public and Private Roles, Knowlege@Wharton  -  09/07/2005
• Howard Kunreuther  -  Insuring Against Terror, Pennsylvania Gazette  -  07/01/2005

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  The Wharton School’s Howard Kunreuther spent four decades studying ways to manage the risks of floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, chemical accidents, and other natural and technological disasters. Then came 9/11, “the ultimate low-probability event.”
• Jean Lemaire  -  Insurance, Life Expectancy and the Cost of Firearm Deaths in the U.S., Knowlege@Wharton  -  06/15/2005
• Neil A Doherty  -  A Finger on the Pulse of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett, Knowlege@Wharton  -  06/01/2005
• Neil A Doherty  -  Can AIG Stay on Top?, Knowlege@Wharton  -  06/01/2005
• Howard Kunreuther  -  Crisis behavior is a mystery - A new 9/11 study renews focus on why some act and others don't in an emergency, Philadelphia Inquirer  -  05/08/2005
• Jean Lemaire  -  In the Tsunami's Wake: How Best to Respond, Knowlege@Wharton  -  01/28/2005

2001

• Jean Lemaire  -  How Will Insurers Deal With Their Most Expensive Catastrophe?, Knowlege@Wharton  -  09/26/2001

2000

• Jean Lemaire  -  Genetic Testing’s Uneasy Relationship with Life Insurance, Knowlege@Wharton  -  03/01/2000