2015年5月28日，在清华大学经管学院伟伦楼336室，来自美国威斯康星麦迪逊大学得Joan T. Schmit教授根据自己的研究做了主题为"Factors Affecting Litigation Rates as Economic Grow: Evidence from China"的精彩报告。清华大学中国保险与风险管理研究中心的陈秉正教授主持了本次报告，Michael R.Powers教授、张丽宏教授以及来自多所高校的师生参加了报告。

(Joan T. Schmit 教授)

      Schmit教授首先介绍了这项研究的初衷和思考，即为什么诉讼和经济发展有紧密关系，诉讼和责任险有着怎样的联系。特别是在诉讼案件日益增多的中国，研究影响诉讼的因素和行为，对于经济发展和转型具有何种深远的意义。

       Schmit教授系统的介绍了她的研究方法和思想，她通过对中国立法系统和经济发展现状的分析，找到了影响诉讼的一些主要因素。紧接着，她阐述了这些因素可能带来的影响，并且通过对比分析，敏锐的找到西方司法体系下，这些影响因子的不同。同时，她解释了这些不同潜在的逻辑并且强调了社交网络和媒体对于现代诉讼的影响。

    接下来，Schmit教授向大家展示了通过实证数据得到的回归分析，来佐证她的推断。她所做的回归矩阵生动形象的展示了她的团队所做的细致分析。同时，她将接下来的研究拿来与大家分享，得到了现场听众积极的反馈。

    报告结束后，Schmit教授与在场的老师同学进行了热烈的讨论，并耐心地回答了大家的问题。现场氛围活跃，讨论热烈。

（中国保险与风险管理研究中心 蒲适 供稿）

【嘉宾简介】

Joan T. Schmit is the Distinguished American Family Insurance Chair of Risk Management and Insurance in the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has been on the faculty since 1988. Schmit also serves as an affiliate faculty member in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, and in the insurance program at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Madison, Professor Schmit spent four years on the faculty at the University of South Carolina. Professor Schmit has published extensively in insurance and legal journals. Among her areas of expertise include insurance regulation, enterprise risk management, and the interaction of law and economics in an insurance and risk management context. For the 2012-13 academic year, Dr. Schmit will be on sabbatical at St. Gallen University and the University of Bath, studying the development of insurance in emerging markets.