SCOR-TSE Partnership

Prizes

SCOR-EGRIE Prizes

Organized under the supervision of the Risk Markets and Value Creation Chair (TSE-P) and Dauphine University, and supported by SCOR and the Fondation du Risque, these two annual awards highlight cutting-edge research in risk and insurance economics. The awards winners are announce during  an official ceremony at the EGRIE seminar.

2025 award winners

SCOR-EGRIE Young Economist Best Paper Award

  • Award winner: Marcel Freyschmidt
  • Title: Tail Overweighting in Catastrophe Bond Pricing

SCOR-Geneva Risk and Insurance Review Best Paper Award

  • Award winner: Richard Peter 
  • Title: The economics of self-protection
  • Publication details: Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 49(1), March 2024, 6-35

Previous award winners

SCOR-EGRIE Young Economist Best Paper Award

  • 2024, Yaming Cao, Earnings dynamics and selection in health insurance markets
  • 2023, Moritz Loewenfeld and Jiakun Zheng, Uncovering correlation sensitivity in decision making under risk
  • 2022, Lan Zou, The impact of subsidies on deductible choice in health insurance
  • 2021, Julia Holzapfel, Classification risk in health insurance: The interaction of prevention and guaranteed renewable insurance
  • 2020, Richard Peter and Pascal Toquebeuf, Separating ambiguity and ambiguity attitude with mean-preserving capacities: Theory and applications
  • 2019, Lu Li, Opening up the black box: The impact of technological transparency on self-protection
  • 2018, Wanda Mimra, Janina Nemitz, and Christian Waibel, Voluntary Pooling of Genetic Risk: A Health Insurance Experiment
  • 2017, Sebastian Ebert, Decision making when things are only a matter of time
  • 2016, Maria Efthymiou and Andreas Milidonis, Does Limited Attention Affect Institutional Trading?
  • 2015, Svenja Hector, Extending the Ramsey Equation further: Discounting under Mutually Utility Independent and Recursive Preferences
  • 2014, Nadine Gatzert, Sebastian Pokutta, and Nikolai Vogl, Convergence of Capital and Insurance Markets: Consistent Pricing of Indexed-Linked Catastrophic Loss Instruments
  • 2013, Sebastian Ebert and Philipp Strack, Until the Bitter End: On Prospect Theory in a Dynamic Context
  • 2012, Andreas Milidonis, Compensation Incentives of Credit Ratings Agencies and Predictability of Changes in Bond Ratings and Financial Strength Ratings
  • 2011, Carole Bernard and Steven Vanduffel, Financial Bounds for Insurance Claims
  • 2010, Sara Arvidsson, Does Private Information Affect the Insurance Risk? Evidence from the Automobile Insurance Market
  • 2009, Julien Hardelin and Sabine Lemoyne de Forges, Price Competition and Capital Choice of Risk Averse Firms: Application to the Insurance Industry
  • 2008, Joerg Schiller, Matching and Risk Classification in Insurance Markets with Intermediation

SCOR-EGRIE Young Economist Best Paper Award

  • 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