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Associate Professor of Finance
Tippie College of Business
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
- Decision-making under risk and uncertainty
- Risk management and insurance
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). When Risk Perception Gets in the Way: Probability Weighting and Underprevention. Operations Research.
- & (In Press). Do you Trust your Insurer? Ambiguity about Contract Nonperformance and Optimal Insurance Demand. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
- (2019). Revisiting Precautionary Saving under Ambiguity. Economics Letters 174 123-127.
- & (In Press). Insurance Fraud in a Rothschild-Stiglitz World. Journal of Risk and Insurance.
- & (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.
- , & (2017). Optimal Prevention for Multiple Risks. The Journal of Risk and Insurance 84 (3) 899-922.
- (2017). Optimal Self-Protection in Two Periods: On the Role of Endogenous Saving. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 137 19-36.
- & (2016). Self-Insurance, Self-Protection, and Saving: On Consumption Smoothing and Risk Management. The Journal of Risk and Insurance 83 (3) 719-734.
- , & (2016). Yes, No, Perhaps? - Premium Risk and Guaranteed Renewable Insurance Contracts with Heterogeneous Incomplete Private Information. The Journal of Risk and Insurance 83 (2) 363-385.