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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
- 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
- (2021). Prevention as a Giffen good. Economics Letters 208.
- & (2021). Should we do more when we know less? The effect of technology risk on optimal effort. The Journal of Risk and Insurance 88 (3) 695-725.
- & (In Press). Changes in risky benefits and in risky costs: A question of the right order. Management Science.
- & (2021). On the effect of uncertainty on personal vaccination decisions. Health Economics 30 (11) 2937-2942.
- (2021). A fresh look at primary prevention for health risks. Health Economics 30 (5) 1247-1254.
- , & (2021). How social preferences provide effort incentives in situations of financial support. PLOS ONE 16 (1) e0244972.
- (2021). Who should exert more effort? Risk aversion, downside risk aversion and optimal prevention. Economic Theory 71 1259-1281.
- & (2020). Do you trust your insurer? Ambiguity about contract nonperformance and optimal insurance demand. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 180 938-954.
- , & (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.