The research interests of the Chair of Risk Management and Insurance Economics include valuation, behavioural insurance, capital allocation and actuarial mathematics. Further focal points are asset liability management, valuation models and incentive systems.

The Chair of Insurance Management works internationally, empirically and application-oriented. Current research interests include the following areas: Digitalization, Microinsurance and Social Security. Further interests are in the areas of regulation, risk management and asset management.

The Innovation in Risk and Insurance competence team bundles key topics of the future in the insurance sector. With a holistic approach, theoretical and empirical methods are used to find adequate solutions in the areas of InsurTech, Alternative Risk Transfer and more.

The research group Behavioral and Experimental Research in Risk and Insurance works on better explaining human behavior under risk and uncertainty on the basis of economic and psychological findings. We do this on the basis of behavioral experiments and individual data sets and thus contribute to the development of solutions for welfare improvement.

Financial Economics of Insurance Team analyzes the role of insurers in the global financial system. Our current research topics include insurers’ liquidity risk, financing and insurance of large risks, private equity ownership in insurance, and analysis of the global insurance market and its regulation.