Wanda Mimra: Katalogdaten im Frühjahrssemester 2018

Name	Frau Prof. Dr. Wanda Mimra
Lehrgebiet	Risiko- und Versicherungsökonomie
Departement	Management, Technologie und Ökonomie
Beziehung	Assistenzprofessorin (Tenure Track)

Nummer	Titel	ECTS	Umfang	Dozierende
363-1017-00L	Risk and Insurance Economics	3 KP	2G	W. Mimra
Kurzbeschreibung	The course covers economics of risk and insurance. Topics covered are fundamentals of insurance, risk measures and risk management, demand and supply of insurance and asymmetric information in insurance markets.
Lernziel	The goal is to introduce students to basic concepts of risk, risk management and economics of insurance.
Inhalt	- fundamentals of insurance - what is the rationale for corporate risk management? - measures of risk and methods of risk management - demand for insurance - supply of insurance - information problems in insurance markets: moral hazard, adverse selection, fraud
Literatur	- Peter Zweifel and Roland Eisen (2012), Insurance Economics, Springer. - S. Hun Seog (2010), The Economics of Risk and Insurance, Wiley-Blackwell. - Ray Rees and Achim Wambach (2008), The Microeconomics of Insurance, Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics: Vol. 4: No 1-2. - Eeckhoudt/Gollier/Schlesinger (2007), Economic and Financial Decisions under Risk, Princeton University Press. - introductory background reading: Harrington/Niehaus (2003), Risk Management and Insurance, McGraw Hill.
364-0531-00L	CER-ETH Research Seminar	0 KP	2S	L. Bretschger, A. Bommier, H. Gersbach, W. Mimra
Kurzbeschreibung	Forschungsseminar des Center of Economic Research CER-ETH
Lernziel	Verständnis der aktuell führenden Forschung in der ökonomischen Theorie, insbesondere aus dem Bereich der CER-ETH Forschung.
Inhalt	Referate zu aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen aus den Bereichen der CER-ETH Forschung von in- und ausländischen Gastreferierenden.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	Bitte spezielle Ankündigungen beachten.
364-1058-00L	Risk Center Seminar Series Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 50	0 KP	2S	A. Bommier, D. Basin, D. N. Bresch, L.‑E. Cederman, P. Cheridito, P. Embrechts, H. Gersbach, H. R. Heinimann, M. Larsson, W. Mimra, G. Sansavini, F. Schweitzer, D. Sornette, B. Stojadinovic, B. Sudret, U. A. Weidmann, S. Wiemer, M. Zeilinger, R. Zenklusen
Kurzbeschreibung	This course is a mixture between a seminar primarily for PhD and postdoc students and a colloquium involving invited speakers. It consists of presentations and subsequent discussions in the area of modeling and governing complex socio-economic systems, and managing risks and crises. Students and other guests are welcome.
Lernziel	Participants should learn to get an overview of the state of the art in the field, to present it in a well understandable way to an interdisciplinary scientific audience, to develop novel mathematical models and approaches for open problems, to analyze them with computers or other means, and to defend their results in response to critical questions. In essence, participants should improve their scientific skills and learn to work scientifically on an internationally competitive level.
Inhalt	This course is a mixture between a seminar primarily for PhD and postdoc students and a colloquium involving invited speakers. It consists of presentations and subsequent discussions in the area of modeling complex socio-economic systems and crises. For details of the program see the webpage of the seminar. Students and other guests are welcome.
Skript	There is no script, but the sessions will be recorded and be made available. Transparencies of the presentations may be put on the course webpage.
Literatur	Literature will be provided by the speakers in their respective presentations.
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes	Participants should have relatively good scientific, in particular mathematical skills and some experience of how scientific work is performed.