Dr. Arthur Hau

Department of Finance and Insurance
Lingnan University
Tuen Mun, N.T.
Hong Kong, PRC.

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Education:

Work Experience

2004 to present: Associate Professor in Risk and Insurance Management, Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
2003 to present: Associate Director, Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies, Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
2001 to 2004: Assistant Professor in Insurance, Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
2000 to 2001: Assistant Professor in Insurance and Risk Management, University of Central Arkansas (USA)
1997 to 2000: Associate Professor Industrial Economics and Insurance, Tamkang University (Taiwan)
1996-97: Lecturer, Tamkang University (Taiwan)
1992-95: Teaching and Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University (USA)
1990-91: Teacher (Panel Chairman), Hong Kong Buddhist Secondary School (Hong Kong)
1988-90: Part-time Lecturer, Shatin Technical Institution (Hong Kong)
1989-90: Part-time Lecturer, City Polytechnic (Hong Kong)
1987-88: Investment Consultant, Kingsmore Investment Company (Hong Kong)

Publications in Refereed Journals:

  1. Arthur Hau, "Catastrophic Losses and Bond Covenants for Mitigating Under- and Overinvestment," Pravartak (The Journal of Insurance and Management), National Insurance Academy of India, forthcoming.

  2. Arthur Hau, "Optimal Insurance under Costly Falsification and Costly, Inexact Verification," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, forthcoming.

  3. Arthur Hau, "Insurance, Bond Covenant, and Under- and Over-investment with Risky Asset Reconstitution," Journal of Risk and Insurance 74(1): 3-22, March 2007. (lead article of the issue)

  4. Arthur Hau, "The Liquidity Demand for Corporate Property Insurance," Journal of Risk and Insurance 73(2):261-278, June 2006.

  5. Arthur Hau, "Production under Uncertainty with Insurance and Hedging," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics:247-259, April 2006.

  6. Arthur Hau, "The Long-run Effects of Pay-as-you-go Medicare on Savings and Consumer Welfare," Public Finance Review 33:634-655, September 2005.

  7. Arthur Hau and Lily Jiang, "Economic Growth and Medicare Funding Systems" Contemporary Economic Policy 23(1):17-27, January 2005.

  8. Arthur Hau, "Theory of the Firm Facing Uncertain Demand Revisited," Economic Theory 24(2), pp.457-464, August 2004.

  9. Arthur Hau, "Prudence, Intertemporal Substitution, and Savings under Uncertainty" Journal of Economics (Zeitschrift Fur Nationalokonomie) 77(1), pp. 35-52, October 2002.

  10. Arthur Hau, "A General Theorem on the Comparative Statics of Changes in Risk" Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory 26, pp. 25-41, June 2001.

  11. Arthur Hau, "Precautionary Saving and Mortality-contingent Social Insurance Programs." Public Finance Review 29(1), pp. 61-82, January 2001.

  12. Arthur Hau, "Liquidity, Estate Liquidation, Charitable Motives, and Life Insurance Demand by Retired Singles," Journal of Risk and Insurance 67(1), pp. 123-141, March 2000.

  13. Arthur Hau, "A Note on Insurance Coverage in Incomplete Markets," Southern Economic Journal 66(2), pp. 433-441, October 1999.

University and Community Services Since Joining Lingnan

Conference Papers

  1. "The Pricing of Committed Bank Loans for Liquidity and Operational Purposes" Academy of International Business Meeting 2006 - Bangkok Thailand, 12/2006.
  2. "Insurance, Bond Covenants, and Under- or Over-investment," Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association Tenth Annual Conference, Tokyo Japan, 8/2006.
  3. "Insurance, Bond Covenants, and Under- or Over-investment with Risky Asset Reconstitution," Academy of International Business Meeting 2005 - The Phillippies, 10/2005.
  4. "A Principal-Agent Problem in Insurance Brokerage and Risk Management" Academy of International Business Meeting 2004 - Macau, 8/2004.
  5. "Optimal Insurance under Costly Falsification and Costly, Imperfect Verification" Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting 2004 - Seoul, Korea, 7/20/2004.
  6. "Liquidity, Output Contract and Corporate Property Insurance Purchase" Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting 2003 - Bangkok, Thailand, 7/22/2003.
  7. "The Comparative Statics of Changes in Risk-Reduction Technologies" American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting 2002 - Montreal, Canada, 8/14/2002.
  8. "Output Yield Insurance and Input Decisions - An Application to Crop Insurance" American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting 2001 - Indianapolis, USA, 8/14/2001.
  9. "Is Raising Medicare Coinsurance Pareto Improving under Perfect Information and Markets?" American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting 2000 - Baltimore, 8/7/2000.
  10. "Optimal Medical Insurance Coverage in Incomplete Markets," Taipei International Conference on Health Economics, Academia Sinica, 3/25/1999.
  11. "Prudence,Equivalence Precautionary Premium and Saving in the Large," Conference on the Contemporary Issues in the Savings in Taiwan, 11/5/1997.

Working Papers

Current Research Areas

  1. General Risk and Insurance Theory
  2. Social Insurance and Medicare
  3. Life Insurance, Life Annuities, IRA and Other Retirement Planning and Estate Planning Instruments
  4. Financial Markets, Hedging and Output Decision

Research Grants

  1. Project Title: "Comparative Statics of Changes in Risk on Kinked Payoff Functions," Lingnan University Internal Grant (Business Program), Ref: DB07A7, HK$29,500.
  2. Project Title: "Liquidity Risk and the Pricing of Committed Bank Loans," Lingnan University Internal Grant (Business Program), Ref: DB06A6, HK$30,000.
  3. Project Title: "Insurance, Bond Covenants, and Under- and Over-investment with Risky Asset Reconstitution," Lingnan University Internal Grant (Business Program), Ref: DB05A5, HK$30,000.
  4. Project Title: "The Principal-Agent Problem and the Optimal Contract under Costly Falsification and Costly, Imperfect Verification," Lingnan University Internal Grant (Business Program), Ref: DB04A2, HK$25,500.
  5. Project Title: "Liquidity, Corporate Property Insurance, and Output Contract," Lingnan University Internal Grant, Ref: DB03A2, HK$25,500.
  6. Project Title: "Comparative Statics of Changes in Risk-Reduction Technologies," Lingnan University Internal Grant, Ref: RES201/BUS003, HK$23,600.
  7. Project Title: "Absolute Prudence, Default Risk, and Insurance Demand," 1998. National Science Council of Taiwan Grant No. NSC 88-2415-H032-016, NT$457,600
  8. Project Title: "Price and Exchange Rate Risk, Optimal Taxation, and Output and Hedging Decisions of Firms," 1999. National Science Council of Taiwan Grant No. NSC 89-2415-H-032-015, NT$466,700

Life Insurance Information Web Site Moderated

  1. RiskyLife.com
    • This website provides free information and a discussion forum on life insurance, annuities, health insurance, Medicare, Medical Savings Accounts, retirement planning, IRS, qualified pension plans, and personal investment strategies.
    • The site also provides Java and Javascript calculators for the calculation of life insurance needs, benefits of traditional IRA over non-IRA investment, benefits of Roth IRA conversion, present value, internal rate of return, present value of an annuity, and stock prices of growth stocks.
    • This website is listed under the following top internet directories:
      Open Directory Project, Google, Healthinks, Matilda USA, Nerd World, Free Stuff Places, and more.
    • Keyword search rankings of RiskyLife.com on two major search engines:
      • AOL (as of July 26, 2001):
        "annuity information" rank# 1
        "life insurance information" rank# 1
      • Google (as of July 26, 2001):
        "life insurance information" rank# 3
        "life annuity information" rank# 1
    • http://www.riskylife.com/ is visited by an average of 100+ people per day with one to more than ten pages viewed by each visitor (as of the month April, 2002).
    • Selected as one of the best six life insurance information web sites by the Inc.com Magazine on July 1, 2002.

  2. ChineseInsurance.info
    • A new insurance information website dedicated to Chinese (under construction)

Computer Skills

Language Ability

Fluency in written and spoken English and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin)

last updated: August 20, 2007