The paper that Professor Bill Chen at University of the West coauthored with Professor Hamwi at the University of Southern Mississippi has been accepted for publication by the Asian Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance. This is one of the top academic refereed journals in the field of Risk and Insurance.

Their paper is titled - Why Some Disaster Insurance Does not Exist? In their paper, they explored why the disaster reinsurance market fails and then how that may lead to the disaster insurance market’s failures.