Principles of Insurance

Risk and Insurance

Life Insurance

Corporate Risk Management

Risk Management

Dr. Lei received her Ph.D. in business, with a specialization in risk management and insurance, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include health insurance, insurance economics and medical malpractice insurance. She joined Barney School of Business in 2004 and currently teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in risk management and insurance.

Education: B.S., Mathematics, Peking University; Master, Economics, Peking University; Ph.D., Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Interests: Health insurance, insurance economics, medical malpractice insurance

• "A Theoretical Model on Health Care Quantity, Health Care Quality and Health Insurance Demand"
  
• "The Effect of Health Care Quality on Health Insurance Demand"
  
• "On the Escalating Medical Malpractice Insurance Premium Rates"(with Mark Browne and Joan Schmit)
  
• "Cost Sharing in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Employees' Access to Care: Evidence from the 2000-2001 Community Tracking Study Household Survey"

Selected Scholarship Books and Articles: ? "Actuarial Mathematics in Life Insurance"(a textbook used in Chinese universities), 1998, Peking University Press, ISBN 7-301-03873-9/FĢ0279

Professional Activities: Referee, North American Actuarial Journal, 2002, Referee, Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2005, Referee, Journal of Insurance Issues, 2005

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