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Positions
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Associate Professor of Finance
Tippie College of Business
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Nationwide Faculty Fellow, Finance
Education
- PhD in Finance, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2013
- MA in Business Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2012
- Diploma in Mathematics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2009
Areas of Interest
- Risk management and insurance
- Decision-making under risk and uncertainty
Professional Memberships
- European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists, 2011
- Risk Theory Society, 2011
- American Risk and Insurance Association, 2010
Selected Awards & Honors
- Excellence Award for Dissertation, Verein zur Förderung der Versicherungswissenschaft in Hamburg, 2014
- Dissertation Award, LMU Management Alumni, 2013
- Ernst-Meyer Prize, The Geneva Association, 2013
- Cannon Scholarship for Teaching Excellence, Sue Cannon, 2018
- Recognized by graduating seniors as UI faculty member who made a positive difference in their lives, University of Iowa, 2017 - 2019
Selected Publications
- (In Press). A fresh look at primary prevention for health risks. Health Economics.
- , & (2021). How social preferences provide effort incentives in situations of financial support. (Vols. 16). (1), pp. e0244972. PLOS ONE.
- & (2020). Do you trust your insurer? Ambiguity about contract nonperformance and optimal insurance demand. (Vols. 180). pp. 938-954. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
- , & (In Press). Incentive and welfare effects of correlated returns. The Journal of Risk and Insurance.
- , , , & (In Press). When risk perception gets in the way: Probability weighting and underprevention. Operations Research.
- (In Press). Who should exert more effort? Risk aversion, downside risk aversion and optimal prevention. Economic Theory.
- & (2020). Insurance fraud in a Rothschild-Stiglitz world. The Journal of Risk and Insurance 87 (1) 117-142.
- (2019). Revisiting precautionary saving under ambiguity. Economics Letters 174 123-127.
- & (2017). Experiential learning, competitive selection and downside risk: A new perspective on managerial risk-taking. Organization Science 28 (5) 915-930.
- , & (2017). Endogenous Information, Adverse Selection, and Prevention: Implications for Genetic Testing Policy. Journal of Health Economics 55 95-107.