Teaching at the Institute of Risk and Insurance

Area of Expertise in Business Administration

• Seminar in Risk and Insurance (271033)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Lohse
  Contents:	Current developments and innovations in the insurance industry.
  Comments:	Inspectress: Prof. Dr. Schneider

• Introduction to Scientific Working Techniques (271034)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Lohse, Schneider
  Contents:	Explanations on the structure of academic papers and formal requirements.
  Literature:	Das Skript »Einführung in wissenschaftliches Arbeiten« ist über die Instituts-Homepage erhältlich.
  Comments:	Students who are completing a seminar or final project at the institute in the current semester are strongly advised to attend the event.

• Insurance Lines and Business Models (271066)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Mon. 16:15 - 17:45 | I-401	Lohse
  Contents:	Insurance lines, new business areas, and distribution channels of German insurance companies Practical strategic issues in the insurance industry (corporate strategies, line policies, digitalization, regulation, and sustainability)
  Literature:	Selected publications and annual reports from German insurance groups will be available during the event.

Area Finance, Banking & Insurance

• Masterkolloquium VBL (374033)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Schneider
  Contents:	During the event, master's students will have the opportunity to present their current research and engage in critical discussion.

• Introduction to Scientific Working Techniques (374035)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Lohse, Schneider
  Contents:	Explanations on the structure of academic papers and formal requirements.
  Literature:	Das Skript »Einführung in wissenschaftliches Arbeiten« ist über die Instituts-Homepage erhältlich.
  Comments:	Students who are completing a seminar or final project at the institute in the current semester are strongly advised to attend the event.

• Introduction to scientific work at IVBL for MSc (374046)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Decke
  Contents:	Explanation of the content structure of scientific papers and formal requirements.
  Literature:	The script "Introduction of scientific work" ist availabel via the institute homepage.

• Behavioral Insurance (374048)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Wed. 14:30 - 16:00 | I-401	Schneider
  Contents:	The class delivers an introduction to the modern research field "Behavioral Insurance". Behavioral Insurance aims to explain and predict financial decision making and insurance market anomalies by incorporating behavioral insights on individual judgment and decision making. First, we will move from the expected utility framework to the most famous descriptive theory of decision making: CPT. We will see that inconsistencies of behavior with expected utility are resolved under CPT. Moreover, we will focus on further aspects of preferences as regret theory or ambiguity. Afterwards, the consequences of the biases and heuristics will be discussed in an insurance context and supported by empirical and experimental research findings. The lecture will be supported by a tutorial and taught in English.

• Exercise Behavioral Insurance (374049)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Thu. 16:15 - 17:45 | I-342	Van Boxel

• Colloquium Practical workshop insurance (374052)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Decke, Lohse
  Contents:	Prior to the face-to-face event, the institute will give a presentation on the companies and students will be provided with supervised training on the respective topics. In a further step, students will be required to complete an independent assignment as part of a term paper.
  Comments:	Further information can be found at StudIP.

• Master Seminar: Climate Risk in Finance & Insurance (374054)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Decke, Prokopczuk, Schneider, Seebonn

• Experimental Methods I: Theory (374055)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Thu. 12:45 - 14:15 | II-013	Schneider
  Contents:	The aim of this lecture is to convey the theoretical foundations for conducting an experiment. The focus will be on both the standards in the field of Experimental Economics and tips for the practical implementation and evaluation of experiments. By the end of this course, students should be able to present their own experimental design. Students will be guided throughout the course to come up with a design and should present in between their design and discuss it within further meetings. The design can then be used to learn how to implement it in the course "Experimental Methods II: Practice" using Otree.
  Comments:	Assessment: presentation and oral examination

• Exercise Experimental Methods I: Theory (374056)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Wed. 16:15 - 17:45 | II-013	Schneider

1. Area: Professional skills

• Experimental Methods I: Theory (571002)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Thu. 12:45 - 14:15 | II-013	Schneider
  Contents:	The aim of this lecture is to convey the theoretical foundations for conducting an experiment. The focus will be on both the standards in the field of Experimental Economics and tips for the practical implementation and evaluation of experiments. By the end of this course, students should be able to present their own experimental design. Students will be guided throughout the course to come up with a design and should present in between their design and discuss it within further meetings. The design can then be used to learn how to implement it in the course "Experimental Methods II: Practice" using Otree.
  Comments:	Assessment: presentation and oral examination

• Exercise Experimental Methods I: Theory (571003)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Wed. 16:15 - 17:45 | II-013	Schneider

3. Area: Scientific skills

• Doctoral Seminar Finance (574001)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Dierkes, Dräger, Prokopczuk, Schneider
  Contents:	PhD students in finance present their research projects.

• Finance Research Seminar (77782)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Wed. 11:00 - 12:30 | I-442	Blaufus, Dierkes, Dräger, Gassebner, Prokopczuk, Reichert, Schneider, Schröder, Sibbertsen, Sönksen, Todtenhaupt
  Contents:	External guests present their latest research