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 announced 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
Interview of the 2025 award winners : Celebrating research in risk and insurance economics
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