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Adam Solomon

I'm a PhD student in the MIT Department of Economics. Prior to MIT, I studied at UNSW in Sydney, Australia.

I work at the intersection of public finance and financial economics, with applications to climate and insurance. I am particularly interested in using theory and empirics to study the design, provision and regulation of (public and private) insurance and how this interacts with changing climate risk and other market frictions.

Here is my CV. Please feel free to get in touch.

From June 2025, I will be an Assistant Professor at the NYU Stern Department of Finance.


Publications

Imperfect Private Information in Insurance Markets. Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

Pre-PHD:

The Dynamics of Majoritarian Blotto Games, with Tilman Klumpp and Kai Konrad. Games and Economic Behaviour, 2019.


Working Papers

Optimal Insurance Scope: Theory and Evidence from US Crop Insurance, with Sylvia Klosin.

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Insuring Correlated Climate Risk: Evidence from Public Reinsurance.

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Self-Targeting in U.S. Transfer Programs, with Charlie Rafkin and Evan Soltas. Revise and Resubmit at the JPE.

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Bundled Risks in Insurance Markets.

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Projected Mortality Improvement and the Money's Worth of US Individual Annuities, with James Poterba.

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Work In Progress

Household Unemployment Insurance and Spousal Labor Supply: Evidence from Australia.

 

Ex-Ante Subsidy vs Ex-Post Assistance: The Spillovers of Mispriced Climate Risk, with Jonathan Gruber.


Teaching Materials

PhD Public Finance (14.472), Fall 2022

PhD Public Finance (14.472), Fall 2024

PhD Public Finance (14.472), Spring 2024

Undergraduate Public Finance (14.41), Fall 2021

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