Further Information
The seminar will be held in English.
If you have any questions, please contact
- Prof. An Chen (e-mail: an.chen(at)uni-ulm.de)
Special Aspects of Insurance Economics
Assistant
Amount
2/0 SWS (4 ECTS)
Date
This seminar takes place as a block seminar. The attendance at all seminar dates is required.
Date: tba
Room: tba
Registration
If you are interested, use one of the following web-pages:
http://econ.mathematik.uni-ulm.de:3838/semapps/stud_en/ (English version)
http://econ.mathematik.uni-ulm.de:3838/semapps/stud_de/ (German version)
There you can register for this seminar from Monday, Jan 26, 2026 until Thursday, Jan 29, 2026.
A preliminary seminar meeting will take place on tba, in person.
Content
In this seminar, we are going to focus on some topics in actuarial science, including Catastrophe insurance, climate risk and risk management. We are specifically dealing with government disaster relief, green bonds, and topics related to technology risk, background risk and information design in insurance markets. The seminar is based on scientific papers that summarize recent results in this area.
Target Group
The seminar is suitable for Master students in Wirtschaftsmathematik, Wirtschaftswissenschaften or Finance. Previous knowledge in Life-, Health-, and Pension-Mathematics, Insurance Economics and Financial Mathematics are helpful.
Seminar Performance
Typically, seminar papers are distributed to a group of 2 students.
The seminar performance consists of three parts:
- A seminar presentation about a selected topic. The presentation typically includes some theoretical derivations / model introduction and some numerical part that applies the results in a realistic setup.
Duration of the presentation: 90 minutes (including discussion).
- A written formulation of the presentation documents as a support for the participants of a maximum length of three pages.
Delivery of the presentation documents: at least one week before the presentation via e-mail to an.chen@uni-ulm.de. The creation of the presentation documents is a performance of the whole group.
- Active participation in this seminar.
Based on the performance, every participant will be credited with an (internal) grade.
Seminar Papers
- Philippi, T., & Schiller, J. (2024). Abandoning disaster relief and stimulating insurance demand through premium subsidies. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 91(2), 339-382.
- Jia, R., Lin, J., Powers, M. R., & Wang, H. (2025). Catastrophe risk sharing among individuals, private insurance, and government. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 92(2), 263-311.
- Eling, M., Jia, R., Lin, J., & Rothschild, C. (2022). Technology heterogeneity and market structure. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 89(2), 427-448.
- Li, L., & Peter, R. (2021). Should we do more when we know less? The effect of technology risk on optimal effort. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 88(3), 695-725.
- Häusle, N., & Rothschild, C. (2024). Information Design in Insurance Markets. Available at SSRN 4925062.
- Cremer, H., Gahvari, F., & Pestieau, P. (2017). Uncertain altruism and the provision of long term care. Journal of Public Economics, 151, 12-24.
- Peter, R., & Hofmann, A. (2024). Precautionary risk-reduction and saving decisions: Two sides of the same coin?. Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 118, 175-194.
- Hinck, S., & Steinorth, P. (2023). Insurance demand in the presence of loss‐dependent background risk. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 90(4), 991-1026.
- Mercuri, L., Rroji, E., & Stefani, I. (2025). Analyzing the greenium term structure of twin government bonds. Available at SSRN 5349903.
- Chen, A. Oliva, I., & Stefani, I. (2025). Green or Brown? Investing under Climate Risk & Uncertainty. Available at SSRN 5598434.