Alexander Muermann Faculty Profile

Alexander Muermann
Assistant Professor of Insurance and Risk Management

PhD, London School of Economics, 2002; MSc, University of Bonn, Germany, 1996; Bsc, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1993

Research Areas
Insurance derivatives; asset pricing; risk theory; insurance economics; operational risk

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2001-present. Previous appointment: London School of Economics. Visiting appointment: University of Frankfurt

Other Positions
Risk Measurement Analyst, Warburg Dillon Read (London), 1998

Representative Publications
(with U. Oktem)
“The Near-Miss Management of Operational Risk.” Journal of Risk Finance 4:1, p. 25-36 (2002).

(with M. Braun)
“The Impact of Regret on the Demand for Insurance.” Journal of Risk and Insurance (forthcoming).

“Catastrophe Derivatives” in Encyclopaedia of Actuarial Science ed. Jozef Teugels and Bjoern Sundt, John Wiley & Sons, (2004).