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Author Biography
Mary A. Weiss
Dr. Mary A. Weiss is Deaver Professor of Risk, Insurance and Healthcare
Management at the Temple University and a Past President of the premier insurance
academic organization in the U.S., the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA).
She is Editor of Risk Management and Insurance Review and an Associate Editor for
Journal of Risk and Insurance. Her research, consisting of more than 30 articles, has
focused on financial services conglomeration, efficiency measurement of insurers, no-fault
automobile insurance, reinsurance, regulation, and underwriting cycles. Her research has
appeared in The Journal of Law and Economics, The Journal of Business, Management
Science, The Journal of Financial Intermediation, The Journal of Risk and Insurance,
Journal of Banking & Finance, The Geneva Papers on Risk, and Insurance Theory and
Contingencies. Her articles have received awards from The Journal of Risk and Insurance,
the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and The Journal of Financial Intermediation. Dr.
Weiss has made numerous research presentations at the Annual Meeting of the American
Risk and Insurance Association. Her research also has been presented at the National
Bureau of Economic Research, the Brookings Institution, the Casualty Actuarial Society,
Risk Theory Society, the Financial Management Association, the Western Economic
Association, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Atlantic Economic Society, the
Allied Social Sciences Association, and at conferences sponsored by the Federal Reserve
Banks of Atlanta and New York. She obtained her Ph.D. at the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania and has been on the faculty of Temple University since 1986.
She was a Visiting Scholar at the Wharton School (2004-2006) and was selected as 2004
Distinguished Huebner Alumnus, Huebner Foundation, Wharton School. Her biography
also appears in Who’s Who in America 2007. She served as a Distinguished Scholar at the
NAIC’s Center for Insurance Policy & Research, a think tank, in 2009-2010.

*Jiang Cheng
Prof. Cheng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance and Insurance,
Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He obtained his doctoral degree from Temple University

*E-mail: jiangcheng@LN.edu.hk
The authors are grateful to the financial support of National Science and Technology Council (MOST
104-2410-H-002-047-). We appreciate the review reports of the two referees that lead us to improve the
accuracy, content, and readability of the paper.

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