Overview

EGRIE awards three prizes at the annual meeting:

• SCOR-EGRIE Young Economist Best Paper Award
• SCOR-Geneva Risk and Insurance Review Best Paper Award
• The Harris Schlesinger Prize for Research Excellence

Below you find further information on the respective awards and previous award winners.

 

SCOR-EGRIE Young Economist Best Paper Award

 

Description

SCOR, the TSE-Partnership Foundation (TSE-P), and The University of Paris-Dauphine are happy to announce the creation of the SCOR/EGRIE Award for the best paper presented by a young economist at the annual seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE).  

The amount offered to the laureate of the award is 2,000 Euros. This award is organised under the supervision of the Chair “Risk Markets and Value creation” at TSE-P and Dauphine University, sponsored by SCOR and the Fondation du Risque. 

The selection committee is composed of five people representing the following institutions: EGRIE, SCOR, Fondation du Risque, Dauphine, and TSE-P.

 

Rules

• To be eligible, the author and all the co-authors have to be under 40.
• The Scientific Committee of the seminar nominates 3 papers among those selected for presentation at the conference.
• Upon reception of the final version of the three nominated papers (no later than August 20), the selection committee will choose the award winning one.
• The SCOR/EGRIE Award will be announced and given during an official ceremony at the EGRIE seminar.

 

Award Winners

 

Year	Award Winner(s)	Title	Other Nominees
2024	Yaming Cao	Earnings dynamics and selection in health insurance markets	Julia Holzapfel and Richard Peter Eric Vansteenberghe
2023	Moritz Loewenfeld and Jiakun Zheng	Uncovering correlation sensitivity in decision making under risk	Hessam Bavafa, Anita Mukherjee, and Tyler Q. Welch Nicolaus Grochola
2022	Lan Zou	The impact of subsidies on deductible choice in health insurance	Johannes Jaspersen and Marc Ragin Richard Koenig and Marielle Brunette
2021	Julia Holzapfel	Classification risk in health insurance: The interaction of prevention and guaranteed renewable insurance	Arthur Beddock and Paul Karehnke Sebastian Hinck, Richard Peter, and Petra Steinorth
2020	Richard Peter and Pascal Toquebeuf	Separating ambiguity and ambiguity attitude with mean-preserving capacities: Theory and applications	Johannes Maier and Dominik Fischer Andre Veiga
2019	Lu Li	Opening up the black box: The impact of technological transparency on self-protection	Tim Boonen and Mario Ghossoub Anastasios Dosis
2018	Wanda Mimra, Janina Nemitz, and Christian Waibel	Voluntary Pooling of Genetic Risk: A Health Insurance Experiment	Johannes Jaspersen, Richard Peter, and Marc Ragin Yehuda Levy and André Veiga
2017	Sebastian Ebert	Decision making when things are only a matter of time	Carole Bernard and Thorsten Moening Christian Kubitza
2016	Maria Efthymiou and Andreas Milidonis	Does Limited Attention Affect Institutional Trading?	Semir Ben Ammar, Alexander Braun, and Martin Eling Christian Hilpert
2015	Svenja Hector	Extending the Ramsey Equation further: Discounting under Mutually Utility Independent and Recursive Preferences	Ola Mahmoud Sebastian Schlütter
2014	Nadine Gatzert, Sebastian Pokutta, and Nikolai Vogl	Convergence of Capital and Insurance Markets: Consistent Pricing of Indexed-Linked Catastrophic Loss Instruments	Katarzyna Werner Muhammed Altuntas, Thomas Berry-Stölzle, and Sabine Wende
2013	Sebastian Ebert and Philipp Strack	Until the Bitter End: On Prospect Theory in a Dynamic Context	Daniel Bauer, Enrico Biffis, and Luz Rocio Sotomayor Nadine Gatzert and Michael Martin
2012	Andreas Milidonis	Compensation Incentives of Credit Ratings Agencies and Predictability of Changes in Bond Ratings and Financial Strength Ratings	Robert Kremslehner Annette Hofmann and Richard Peter
2011	Carole Bernard and Steven Vanduffel	Financial Bounds for Insurance Claims	Johannes Maier and Maximilian Rüger AJ Allen Bostian and Christoph Heinzel
2010	Sara Arvidsson	Does Private Information Affect the Insurance Risk? Evidence from the Automobile Insurance Market	Damir Filipovic, Robert Kremslehner, and Alexander Muermann Thomas Post and Katja Hanewald
2009	Julien Hardelin and Sabine Lemoyne de Forges	Price Competition and Capital Choice of Risk Averse Firms: Application to the Insurance Industry	David Crainich    Robert Kremslehner and Alexander Mürmann
2008	Joerg Schiller	Matching and Risk Classification in Insurance Markets with Intermediation	Gudrun Hoermann, Nadine Gatzert, and Hato Schmeiser     Paolo Zanghieri

 

 

SCOR-Geneva Risk and Insurance Review Best Paper Award

 

Description

SCOR, the TSE-Partnership Foundation (TSE-P), and The University of Paris-Dauphine are happy to announce the creation of the SCOR/TSE-P Award for the best paper of the year published in the Geneva Risk and insurance Review. 

The amount offered to the laureate of the award is 1,000 Euros. This award is organised under the supervision of the Chair “Risk Markets and Value creation” at TSE-P and Dauphine University, sponsored by SCOR and the Fondation du Risque. 

The selection committee, composed of the editors and associate editors of the Geneva Risk and Insurance Review (GRIR), will choose and reward the best paper published the previous year. 
The SCOR/GRIR award will be announced during an official ceremony at the EGRIE seminar.

 

Award Winners

 

Year	Award Winner(s)	Title	Publication Details
2024	Johannes Jaspersen, Richard Peter, and Marc Ragin	Probability weighting and insurance demand in a unified framework	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 48(1), March 2023, 63–109
2023	Enrico Biffis, Erik Chavez, Alexis Louaas, and Pierre Picard	Parametric insurance and technology adoption in developing countries	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 47(1), March 2022, 7–44
2022	Alexis Louaas and Pierre Picard	Optimal insurance coverage of low-probability catastrophic risks	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 46(1), March 2021, 61–88
2021	Christian Gollier	Pandemic economics: optimal dynamic confinement under uncertainty and learning	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 45(2), September 2020, 80–93
2020	Céline Grislain-Letrémy and Bertrand Villeneuve	Natural disasters, land-use, and insurance	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 44(1), March 2019, 54–86
2019	Miles Kimball and Christian Gollier	New methods in the classical economics of uncertainty: Comparing risks	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 43(1), May 2018, 5–23
2018	Justina Klimaviciute	Long-Term Care Insurance and Intra-family Moral Hazard: Fixed vs Proportional Insurance Benefits	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 42(2), September 2017, 87–116
2017	Michel Denuit, Louis Eeckhoudt, Jack Meyer, and Liqun Liu	Tradeoffs for Downside Risk-Averse Decision-Makers and the Self-Protection Decision	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 41(1), March 2016, 108–129
2016	Vickie Bajtelsmit and Paul Thistle	Liability, Insurance and the Incentive to Obtain Information about Risk	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 40(1), September 2015, 171–193
2015	Georges Dionne and Casey Rothschild	Economic Effects of Risk Classification Bans	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 39(2), September 2014, 184–221
2014	Pierre Picard and Jean Pinquet	Optimal Risk Financing in Large Corporations through Insurance Captives	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 38(1), March 2013, 48–86
2013	W. Henry Chiu	Risk Aversion, Downside Risk Aversion and Paying for Stochastic Improvements	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 37(1), March 2012, 1–26
2012	Christian Gollier	On the Underestimation of the Precautionary Effect in Discounting	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 36(2), December 2011, 95–111
2011	Sharon Tennyson	Incentive Effects of Community Rating in Insurance Markets: Evidence from Massachusetts Automobile Insurance	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 35(1), June 2010, 19–46
2010	John Quiggin and Robert G Chambers	Bargaining Power and Efficiency in Insurance Contracts	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 34(1), June 2009, 47–73
2009	Keith Crocker and Arthur Snow	Background Risk and the Performance of Insurance Markets under Adverse Selection	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 33(2), December 2008, 137–160
2008	Markus Glaser and Martin Weber	Overconfidence and Trading Volume	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 32(1), June 2007, 1–36

The Harris Schlesinger Prize for Research Excellence

 

Description

This Prize is dedicated to the memory of Harris Schlesinger, a founding Editor of the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Theory (now the Geneva Risk and Insurance Review) and a past President and avid supporter of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists. The Harris Schlesinger Prize for Research Excellence is to be awarded to an outstanding article published in the Geneva Risk and Insurance Review during the previous ten years. The amount offered to the laureate of the award is 2000 Euros.

 

Rules

• To be eligible, the article must have appeared in the Geneva Risk and Insurance Review during the previous ten years.
• A Selection Committee will determine the article to be awarded the Prize.The Committee will be appointed by the Editors of the Geneva Risk and Insurance Review. The Committee will be composed of four members, each with a two-year term.Each year, two of the members will rotate off the Committee, to be replaced by two new members.

• The recipient of the Prize will be announced at the annual meeting of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists.

 

Award Winners

 

Year	Award Winner(s)	Title	Publication Details
2024	Christian Gollier	Pandemic economics: optimal dynamic confinement under uncertainty and learning	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 45(2), September 2020, 80–93
2023	Pierre Picard	Participating Insurance Contracts and the Rothschild-Stiglitz Equilibrium Puzzle	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 39(2), September 2014, 153–175
2022	Georges Dionne and Casey Rothschild	Economic Effects of Risk Classification Bans	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 39(2), September 2014, 184–221
2021	Christian Gollier	On the Underestimation of the Precautionary Effect in Discounting	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 36(2), December 2011, 95–111
2020	W. Henry Chiu	Skewness preference, risk taking and expected utility maximisation	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 35(2), December 2010, 108–129
2019	Michel Denuit, Louis Eeckhoudt, Jack Meyer, and Liqun Liu	Tradeoffs for Downside Risk-Averse Decision-Makers and the Self-Protection Decision	Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 41(1), March 2016, 108–129