About the chair

The mission of the Chair is to provide research and teaching excellence in the field of financial economics, risk & insurance management.

Why care about risk & insurance management? The most recent financial crisis has highlighted the need to enhance our understanding on how to protect investors, the real economy, and society at large, from unpredictable spikes in economic, policy, and financial market risks. Within the Chair, the research group around Prof. Dr. Maxim Ulrich focuses on developing and teaching new quantitative and computational risk & insurance management tools, whereas the research group around Prof. Dr. Ute Werner focuses on business and policy implications as well as on behavioral aspects of current risk management challenges.