Chair for Insurance Economics and Social Security

Prof. Dr. Jörg Schiller

Head of Chair

Chair for Insurance Economics and Social Security (530c)
Campus Hohenheim, Fruwirthstr. 48, Room number: 4.48/016 (ground floor)
70599 Stuttgart


Academic Curriculum Vitae

since 2009University professor and head of chair at the University of Hohenheim
since 2008Habilitation at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management (Vallendar)
since 2004Doctorate at the University of Hamburg
since 1999Business graduate (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)

Research Focus

  • Behavioral insurance
  • Insurance brokerage
  • Selection effects in health and long-term care insurance
  • Regulation of insurance markets and insurance fraud

Affiliations

  • President of the European Group of Risk & Insurance Economists (since 2020)
  • Member of Senate at the University of Hohenheim (since 2010)
  • Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (since 2017)
  • Head of the part-time Master of Science in Finance program at the University of Hohenheim
  • Co-organizer of the Behavioral Insurance Workshop (Munich Risk and Insurance Center)

Selected publications

  • Bauer, J.M., C. Schreckenberger und J. Schiller, 2020, Heterogeneous Selection in the Market for Private Supplemental Dental Insurance: Evidence from Germany, Empirical Economics 59: 205-231.
  • von Bieberstein, F., E. Feess, J.F. Fernando, F. Kerzenmacher und J. Schiller, 2019, Moral Hazard, Risk Sharing, and the Optimal Pool Size, Journal of Risk and Insurance 86: 297-313.
  • von Bieberstein, F. und J. Schiller, 2018, Contract Design and Insurance Fraud: An Experimental Investigation, Review of Managerial Science 12: 711-736.
  • Fiederling, K., J. Schiller und F. von Bieberstein, 2018, Can we trust consumers’ survey answers when dealing with insurance fraud? – Evidence from an experiment, Schmalenbach Business Review 70: 111-147 .
  • Kaiser, M., J. Schiller und C. Schreckenberger, 2017, The Effectiveness of a Population-Based Skin Cancer Screening Program: Evidence from Germany, European Journal of Health Economics, 19: 355-367
  • Lange, R., J. Schiller und P. Steinorth, 2017, Demand and Selection Effects in Supplemental Health Insurance in Germany, Geneva Papers - Issues and Practise 42: 5-30.
  • Richter, A., J. Schiller und H. Schlesinger, 2014, Behavioral Insurance: Theory and Experiments, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 48: 85-96.
  • Focht, U., A. Richter und J. Schiller, 2013, Intermediation and (Mis-)Matching in Insurance Markets - Who Should Pay the Insurance Broker, Journal of Risk and Insurance 80: 329-350.
  • Nell, M., A. Richter und J. Schiller, 2009, When prices hardly matter: Incomplete insurance contracts and markets for repair goods, European Economic Review 53: 343-354.
  • Hack, A. und J. Schiller, 2009, Vertikale Integration und Unternehmenserfolg: Eine empirische Analyse in der Formel 1, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft 79: 161-186.
  • Schiller, J., 2006, The Impact of Insurance Fraud Detection Systems, Journal of Risk and Insurance 73: 421-438.