Daniel Bauer
Hickman-Larson Chair in Actuarial Science and Associate Professor of Risk and Insurance at Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Daniel Bauer is the Hickman-Larson Chair in Actuarial Science and Associate Professor of Risk and Insurance at Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the faculty at UW-Madison, he was the Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company Endowed Chair in Actuarial Science and Risk Management at Culverhouse College of Commerce at the University of Alabama and Robert W. Batten Chair in Actuarial Science at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
Professor Bauer’s research interests are at the interface of actuarial science, quantitative finance, and insurance economics.
Professor Bauer is an expert in insurance and mathematical finance. In his publications, Professor Bauer has examined aspects of the secondary life insurance markets (life settlements), the valuation of life insurance liabilities, and the determination of risk capital and its allocation for insurers. Moreover, he has contributed to several publications on the modeling and management of demographic risks. He is currently an editor of the ASTIN Bulletin — The Journal of the International Actuarial Association, and an associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance.
Professor Bauer earned his MS in Statistics from San Diego State University and his PhD in Mathematics from Ulm University.