Biography
Dr. Martin F. Grace joins the Fox School as the Harry A. Cochran Professor of Risk, Insurance, & Healthcare Management.
Most recently, Grace was a Georgia Regents’ Professor and held the James S. Kemper Jr. Professorship in Risk Management. He served as the chair of Georgia State University’s risk management and insurance department. He is the former president of the Risk Theory Society, and serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance. His research interests include tort reform, catastrophe financing, and industrial organization, regulation, and taxation of the insurance industry.
Over his career, he has published more than 70 professional and scholarly research papers and book chapters, and has consulted with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, various state regulators, and industry associations. He also has testified before the U.S. Congress on the future of insurance regulation as part of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Grace earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Florida, where he also attained his JD and his Master of Arts degree in Economics. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire.
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
RMI 5051 | Managing Risk | Graduate |
RMI 9001 | Corporate Risk Management | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Luo, J., Chen, H., & Grace, M. (2022). Medicaid expansion, tort reforms, and medical liability costs. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 89(3), 789-821. Wiley. doi: 10.1111/jori.12376.
Ellis, C.M., Grace, M.F., Smith, R.A., & Zhang, J. (2022). Medical cannabis and automobile accidents: Evidence from auto insurance. Health Economics, 31(9), 1878-1897. Wiley. doi: 10.1002/hec.4553.
Basu, S. & Grace, M.F. (2022). Insurance: in or out of the ‘too difficult’ box? Accounting and Business Research, 52(5), 510-535. Informa UK Limited. doi: 10.1080/00014788.2022.2080350.
Grace, M.F. & Sjoquist, D.L. (2020). The Effect of Taxes on the Location of Property‐Casualty Insurance Firms. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 87(4), 1035-1062. Wiley. doi: 10.1111/jori.12298.
Grace, M. & Sjoquist, D. (2019). Do Property–Casualty Insurance Firms Locate to Minimize Insurance Premium Taxes? Risk Management and Insurance Review, 22(1), 101-125. doi: 10.1111/rmir.12103.
Grace, M. & Ping, J. (2018). Driverless Technologies and Their Effects on Insurers and the State: An Initial Assessment. Risk Management and Insurance Review, 21(3), 413-433. doi: 10.1111/rmir.12110.
Leverty, J.T. & Grace, M.F. (2018). Do elections delay regulatory action? Journal of Financial Economics, 130(2), 409-427. doi: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2018.06.010.
Grace, M. (2018). Nonprofits and the value of risk management. In Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management: Second Edition (pp. 225-242).