Michael Berger

Michael Berger

Palo Alto, California, United States
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My team structures insurance-backed performance guarantees around risks of machine…

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    Palo Alto, California, United States

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    Palo Alto, California, United States

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    2010 - 2016 in Munich and London; since August 2016 in Palo Alto, CA, USA

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    Munich Area, Germany

Education

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    PhD Thesis: Drivers of demand for innovative corporate insurance products in imperfect markets.

    My PhD thesis was published as book (in German) in June 2016. It is available for ordering on the publisher's website and Amazon. The thesis analysis the drivers of demand of innovative corporate insurance solutions. This allows to gain insights into how to structure solutions with a higher probability of meeting demand. Furthermore, the book dedicates one chapter to innovation management in…

    PhD Thesis: Drivers of demand for innovative corporate insurance products in imperfect markets.

    My PhD thesis was published as book (in German) in June 2016. It is available for ordering on the publisher's website and Amazon. The thesis analysis the drivers of demand of innovative corporate insurance solutions. This allows to gain insights into how to structure solutions with a higher probability of meeting demand. Furthermore, the book dedicates one chapter to innovation management in corporate insurance.

    My thesis was rewarded with the Exceptional Price of the Funk Foundation in 2016.

    See http://www.strategic-risk-global.com/funk-foundation-reveals-winners-of-its-innovation-price/1419655.article

    Leberecht Funk said about my thesis in his honorific speech: “This innovative model is a priceworthy step forward and motivates further in-depth empirical study in a field that is utterly important for maintaining the market relevance of both sides of the corporate insurance market."

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    Focus on philosophy of mind, rationality, Plato, Aristotle, and early Arabic philosophy

    Master thesis: The idea of man and nature in al-Fārābīs’ political society.

    I argue that Leo Strauss’ opinion about a friction between his idea of man and nature in al-Fārābīs’ political writings is wrong. Applying al-Fārābīs’ understanding of nature, man and the perfect political society correctly leaves no friction but a coherent cosmological and political theory.

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    Focus on Finance, Statistics, Insurance and International Management

    Diploma thesis: Implications of state interventions in credit (re-)insurance during the financial crisis

    I argue that the interventions in the credit (re-)insurance markets done or considered during the financial crisis were unjustified based on economic considerations, could not increase capacity and even created wrong incentives.

Languages

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

  • German

    Native or bilingual proficiency

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