Thomas Post - American Risk and Insurance Association

Thomas Post
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
School of Business and Economics
Chair for Insurance and Risk Management
Spandauer Str. 1
10099 Berlin
Germany
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +49 160 4407431
URL: http://thomaspost.gmxhome.de/
July 2008
Positions Held
Assistant (comparable to U.S. Assistant Professor), Dr. Wolfgang Schieren Chair for Insurance and
Risk Management, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 01/2007–present
Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 08/2006–
12/2006
Research Assistant and Ph.D. Student, Dr. Wolfgang Schieren Chair for Insurance and Risk
Management, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 05/2003–07/2006
Audit Assistant (Insurance), KPMG, 01/2002–04/2003
Education
Dr. rer. pol., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, School of Business and Economics, 2006
- Title of dissertation thesis: “Optimale Altersvorsorgestrategien: Eine Lebenszyklusanalyse”
[Optimal Financial Planning Strategies: A Life-Cycle Analysis]
- Advisor: Helmut Gründl
Diploma in Business Administration (comparable to U.S. master’s degree in Finance & Insurance),
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, School of Business and Economics, 2001
Research Interests
Financial planning, retirement decisions, mortality risk, value-based management and risk
management for insurance companies, financial reporting for insurance companies
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Academic Publications
Post, T., H. Gründl, L. Schmidl, and M. S. Dorfman, 2007, Implications of IFRS for the European
Insurance Industry – Insights from Capital Market Theory, Risk Management & Insurance Review,
10: 247–265.
Gründl, H., T. Post, and R. N. Schulze, 2006, To Hedge or Not to Hedge: Managing Demographic
Risk in Life Insurance Companies, The Journal of Risk and Insurance, 73: 19–41.
Post, T., H. Gründl, and H. Schmeiser, 2006, Portfolio Management and Retirement: What is the
Best Arrangement for a Family?, Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 20: 265–285.
Schmeiser, H. and T. Post, 2005, Life Annuity Insurance Versus Self-Annuitization: An Analysis from
the Perspective of the Family, Risk Management & Insurance Review, 8: 239–255.
Working Papers
Post, T., H. Gründl, H., A. Zimmer, and J. T. Schmit, 2008, The Impact of Individual Investment
Behavior for Retirement Welfare: Evidence from the U.S. and Germany.
Schulze, R. N. and T. Post, 2008, Individual Annuity Demand under Aggregate Mortality Risk,
(revise and resubmit (2nd round): The Journal of Risk and Insurance).
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Work in Progress
Post, T.: The Option Value of Deferred Annuities in a Life-Cycle Model with Aggregate Mortality Risk.
Hanewald, K., T. Post und H. Gründl: Hedging Aggregate Mortality Risk.
Other Publications
Post, T. and H. Gründl, 2007, Die neuen IFRS für Versicherungsverträge: Welche ökonomischen
Auswirkungen ergeben sich? [The New IFRS for Insurance Contracts: Which Economic
Consequences Can We Expect?], Versicherungswirtschaft, 13: 1069–1070.
Schmeiser H. and T. Post, 2003, Leibrentenversicherung versus Fondsentnahmeplan - Chancen
und Risiken aus der Perspektive potenzieller Erben [Life Annuities Versus Self-Annuitization—
Chance and Risk Reviewed from the Perspective of Heirs], Betriebswirtschaftliche
Diskussionsbeiträge Nr. 25, edited by the School of Business and Economics of HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin, 43 pp.
Books
Post, T., 2006, Optimale Altersvorsorgestrategien: Eine Lebenszyklusanalyse [Optimal Financial
Planning Strategies: A Life-Cycle Analysis], Dissertation Thesis
Book Reviews
Risikokapitalbasierte Steuerung in der Schaden- und Unfallversicherung - Konzeption einer
modellgestützten Risikoanalyse [Risk-Based Management for P&L Insurers—Design of a ModelBased Risk Analysis], Tillmann, M., Zeitschrift für die gesamte Versicherungswissenschaft, 2006, 95:
181–183.
Presentations
2008
Netspar Pension Workshop June 2008, The Hague (Netherlands)
Risk Theory Society, Colorado State University
Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany)
2007
34th Seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists, Cologne
(Germany)
American Risk & Insurance Association, 2007 Annual Meeting, Quebec (Canada)
Annual Meeting of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB),
Paderborn (Germany)
Risk Theory Society, Penn State University
Annual Congress of the German Insurance Science Association, Stuttgart (Germany)
2006
University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
American Risk & Insurance Association, 2006 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
2005
10th Symposium on Finance, Banking, and Insurance, Universität Karlsruhe (Germany)
Meeting Europe’s Social and Economic Needs Conference, Tilburg University
(Netherlands)
2004
American Risk & Insurance Association, 2004 Annual Meeting, Chicago
2003
American Risk & Insurance Association, 2003 Annual Meeting, Denver
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Courses Taught
Financial Planning (graduate, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Accounting, Controlling, and Risk Management for Insurance Groups (graduate, HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin)
Advanced Corporate Finance (undergraduate, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)
Insurance and Risk Management (graduate level tutorial, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Risk Management (undergraduate, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Memberships in Associations
American Economic Association
American Risk & Insurance Association
European Economic Association
European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists
German Insurance Science Association
Risk Theory Society
Honors and Awards
Berliner Preis für Versicherungswissenschaft 2007, dissertation award
Dr. Schieren-Förderpreis 2005, research grant
Humboldt-Preis 2002, diploma thesis award
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