Christian Biener

Christian Biener is Associate Professor of Behavioral Risk Management and Director at the Institute of Insurance Economics at the University of St.Gallen. Professor Biener is a regular speaker at international conferences on risk and insurance and has received several awards and grants during his academic career.

Expertise

Professor Biener is focusing on ways to improve our understanding of human decision-making under risk and uncertainty by integrating insights from economics and psychology. He uses experiments and real-world data to provide a more accurate description of human behavior in risky situations and has a particular interest in violations of rationality and means of improving welfare. His research contributes to ongoing debates in both the academic literature and practice, and has implications for contemporary real-world challenges. Current fields of application for his results include health insurance, the characterization and antecedents of risk and uncertainty preferences, the implications of technological innovation for behavior, and the role of trust in insurance markets.

Expertise Fields

• Financial Markets
• International Financial Markets and Emerging Markets
• Financial Institutions
• Insurance Companies
• Corporate Finance and Governance
• Financial Risk and Risk Management