Rate My Professor Joseph Ruhland

Joseph Ruhland is the Department Chair and Professor in the Department of Finance at Georgia Southern University. He is a Professor of risk management and insurance. Ruhland earned his B.B.A. in Risk Management and Insurance/Finance, Investment and Banking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Risk Management and Insurance from the University of Georgia in 2006. Prior to his academic career, he worked as an employee benefits consultant in Chicago for Hewitt Associates, Aon Consulting, and in private practice. His research areas of interest include asymmetric information, political risk, corporate governance, and financial planning.

Ruhland's published research appears in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Insurance Issues, and Journal of Insurance Regulation. Key publications include "Determinants of Corporate Diversification: Evidence from the Property-Liability Insurance Industry" (Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2012, co-authored with T.R. Berry-Stölzle, A.P. Liebenberg, J.S. Ruhland, and D.W. Sommer); "The Market Impact of the Supreme Court Decision Regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Evidence from the Health Insurance Industry" (Journal of Insurance Issues, 2018, with J.I. Hilliard, A.P. Liebenberg, and I.A. Liebenberg); "Regulation of Health Care Sharing Ministries" (Journal of Insurance Regulation, 2010, with K. Eastman and A. Eastman); "Market Reaction to Regulatory Capture and Political Risk in a Highly-Salient Environment" (Journal of Insurance Regulation, 2010, with R.E. Dumm, A.P. Liebenberg, and I.A. Liebenberg); "Market Pricing of Political Risk: Evidence from the Property-Liability Insurance Industry" (Journal of Insurance Issues, 2008, with A.P. Liebenberg and I.A. Liebenberg); and "A Note on Job Market Conditions and Students' Academic Performance" (Journal of Business & Economics Research, 2013, with C.W. Paul II). His doctoral dissertation is titled "Information Asymmetry between Firm Managers and Owners: Two Essays" (University of Georgia, 2006). Ruhland has delivered conference presentations on topics such as retirement planning with Excel Monte Carlo simulations (2015 and 2018), effects of corporate diversification in the property-liability insurance industry, and the marginal predictive power of market data on insurer insolvency.