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
2008Habilitation at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management (Vallendar)
2004Doctorate at the University of Hamburg
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

  • Head of the part-time Master of Science in Finance program at the University of Hohenheim
  • Member of Senate at the University of Hohenheim (since 2010)
  • Co-organizer of the Behavioral Insurance Workshop (Munich Risk and Insurance Center)

Selected publications

  • Braegelmann, K. A. & J. Schiller, 2025, Lowering Acquisition Costs by a Commission Cap? Evidence from the German private health insurance market, Geneva Risk and Insurance Review 50: 148-204.
  • Philippi, T. & J. Schiller, 2024, Abandoning Disaster Relief and Stimulating Insurance Demand Through Premium Subsidies, Journal of Risk and Insurance 91: 339-382.
  • Bauer, J.M., C. Schreckenberger & 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 & J. Schiller, 2019, Moral Hazard, Risk Sharing, and the Optimal Pool Size, Journal of Risk and Insurance 86: 297-313.
  • von Bieberstein, F. & J. Schiller, 2018, Contract Design and Insurance Fraud: An Experimental Investigation, Review of Managerial Science 12: 711-736.
  • Fiederling, K., J. Schiller & 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 & 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 & 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 & H. Schlesinger, 2014, Behavioral Insurance: Theory and Experiments, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 48: 85-96.
  • Focht, U., A. Richter & 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 & J. Schiller, 2009, When prices hardly matter: Incomplete insurance contracts and markets for repair goods, European Economic Review 53: 343-354.
  • Hack, A. & 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.