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Overview

Harris Schlesinger is affiliated with the University of Alabama in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields including Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Business, Management and Accounting, and Decision Sciences.

Their work is concentrated in various subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, and General Decision Sciences. These areas underpin their broader investigation into several main research topics including:

  • Insurance and Financial Risk Management
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Schlesinger has contributed to academic literature with recent papers including one titled Whoops! It Happened Again: Demand for Insurance That Covers Multiple Risks, published in 2023 in the journal Risks. This work has garnered some citation attention, reflecting engagement from the scholarly community.

Collaboration is a part of Schlesinger's research approach. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Liang Hong
  • Boyi Zhuang

The research has been published primarily in the journal Risks, aligning with the topics of risk management and financial decision-making.

Best Publications

  • The Risk-Averse and Prudent Newsboy

    Louis Eeckhoudt;Christian Gollier;Harris Schlesinger

  • Putting Risk in its Proper Place

    Louis Eeckhoudt;Harris Schlesinger

  • Putting Risk in Its Proper Place

    Louis Eeckhoudt;Harris Schlesinger

  • Economic and Financial Decisions under Risk

    Louis Eeckhoudt;Christian Gollier;Harris Schlesinger

  • Changes in Background Risk, and Risk Taking Behaviour

    Louis Eeckhoudt;Christian Gollier;Harris Schlesinger

  • Optimal Insurance in Incomplete Markets

    Neil A. Doherty;Harris Schlesinger

  • Changes in risk and the demand for saving

    Louis Eeckhoudt;Harris Schlesinger

  • Risk Aversion and the Propensities for Self-Insurance and Self-Protection

    Eric Briys;Harris Schlesinger

  • Rational Insurance Purchasing: Consideration of Contract Nonperformance

    Neil A. Doherty;Harris Schlesinger

  • A Good Sign for Multivariate Risk Taking

    Louis Eeckhoudt;Béatrice Rey;Harris Schlesinger

  • The Optimal Level of Deductibility in Insurance Contracts

    Harris Schlesinger

  • Exploring Higher Order Risk Effects

    Cary Deck;Harris Schlesinger

  • Consistency of Higher Order Risk Preferences

    Cary Deck;Harris Schlesinger

  • The Theory of Insurance Demand

    Harris Schlesinger

  • Arrow's Theorem on the Optimality of Deductibles: A Stochastic Dominance Approach

    Christian Gollier;Harris Schlesinger

  • Apportioning of Risks via Stochastic Dominance

    Louis Eeckhoudt;Louis Eeckhoudt;Harris Schlesinger;Ilia Tsetlin

  • Risk Aversion in Rent‐Seeking and Rent‐Augmenting Games

    Kai A. Konrad;Harris Schlesinger

  • Consumer Information and Decisions to Switch Insurers

    Harris Schlesinger;J. Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg

  • Search Costs, Switching Costs and Product Heterogeneity in an Insurance Market

    Harris Schlesinger;J. Matthias Graf Von der Schulenburg

  • Multiplicative Background Risk

    Gnter Franke;Harris Schlesinger;Richard C. Stapleton

  • The Optimal Deductible for an Insurance Policy When Initial Wealth is Random

    Neil A. Doherty;Harris Schlesinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis Eeckhoudt
Louis Eeckhoudt IESEG School of Management
Christian Gollier
Christian Gollier Toulouse School of Economics
Michel Denuit
Michel Denuit Université Catholique de Louvain
Kai A. Konrad
Kai A. Konrad Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance

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