News overview
All news at a glance.
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New study on the value of lifelong pensions in old-age provisionA recent study by MRIC sheds light on the value of such a lifelong annuity (life annuity) and why its customer benefits are often underestimated in the market.
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2025 Student Risk Management ChallengeApply until 28 October 2024 for the 2025 Student Risk Management Challenge - a global competition for student teams to develop and present the most comprehensive Risk Management report based on a case study.
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Call for Papers CEAR/MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop 2024The CEAR/MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop invites researchers to submit papers that offer new experimental, econometric or theoretical insights into human behavior in the insurance context.
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Catastrophe Risk Management Seminar in the Winter Semester 2023Our Catastrophe Risk Management seminar equipped students with essential strategies to tackle global challenges like climate change and pandemics.
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New Publication in the Journal of Risk and InsuranceThe paper "Mitigating moral hazard with usage-based insurance" by Julia Holzapfel, Richard Peter, and Andreas Richter was published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance.
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CEAR/MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop 2022On December 12-13, 2022, the MRIC hosted the annual CEAR/MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop at the LMU Munich.
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New MRIC Program Coordinator: Dr. Johannes MaierThe Munich Risk and Insurance Center (MRIC) is pleased to announce Dr. Johannes Maier as our new program coordinator.
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Julia Holzapfel wins SCOR – EGRIE Young Economist Best Paper AwardThe SCOR – EGRIE Young Economist Best Paper Award honors the best paper presented by a young economist (under 40 years of age) at the annual seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE).
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Dr. Tobias Huber wins Ernst Meyer Prize 2021Every year, the Geneva Association: the International Association for the study of insurance economics, awards the prestigious Ernst Meyer Prize for university research work, usually in the form of a doctoral thesis.
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Dr. Lu Li wins the award of the university society for outstanding PhD achievements 2020The award of the Munich University Society (Münchener Universitätsgesellschaft) honors outstanding research achievements by young researchers and academic staff who develop and implement innovative educational concepts.
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MRIC alumnus Richard Peter has been named winner of this year’s Early Career Scholarly Achievement Award by the American Risk and Insurance Association!We congratulate Richard Peter, MRIC alumnus, on being named the winner of the ARIA 2020 Early Career Scholarly Achievement Award!
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Dr. Lu Li wins Ernst Meyer Prize 2020Dr. Lu Li (Institute for Risk Management and Insurance) has been awarded the Ernst Meyer Prize 2020 for her doctoral thesis “Essays on Information, Risk Preferences and Risk Management”.
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Dr. Thomas Wilson has been named Honorary ProfessorGreat news from our lecturer! Dr. Thomas Wilson (Chief Risk Officer at Allianz SE) has been named Honorary Professor of "Applied Risk Management and Insurance" at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.
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Book on behavioral economics in the insurance industry publishedThe authors Andreas Richter, Jochen Ruß and Stefan Schelling present approaches from behavioral economics and show their relevance for the insurance industry.
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Textbook on risk and insurance published
The authors Walter Karten, Martin Nell, Andreas Richter and Jörg Schiller present the fundamentals of managing risks in private insurance markets.
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Dr. Johannes Jaspersen appointed assistant professorWe are happy to announce that Dr. Johannes Jaspersen was appointed assistant professor for behavioral decision-making and insurance.
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Dr. Richard Peter wins Ernst Meyer Prize 2013
Dr. Richard Peter wins the Geneva Association’s prestigious Ernst Meyer Prize for outstanding doctoral thesis.
