Annual EGRIE Awards, presented by the SCOR-TSE Chair

2021 Awards

The SCOR Foundation for Science sponsored two awards presented during the 48th annual seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economics (EGRIE):

• The SCOR-Geneva Risk and Insurance Review Best Paper Award went to Christian Gollier, Professor of Economics and Managing Director at the Toulouse School of Economics, for his article “Pandemic economics: optimal dynamic confinement under uncertainty and learning”, which was published in the Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, September 2020, 80-93;
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• The SCOR-EGRIE Young Economist Award (open to economists under 40 years of age) went to Julia Holzapfel of the LMU Munich School of Management, for her article “Classification risk in health insurance: The interaction of prevention and guaranteed renewable insurance”, which shows that Guaranteed Renewable contracts which reward investments in prevention but do not use genetic information in pricing can be a good compromise to offer classification risk insurance at an attractive price without disadvantaging individuals with an unfortunate genetic endowment.
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2020 Awards

During the 47^th annual seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE), two awards sponsored by the SCOR Corporate Foundation for Science and the SCOR group were presented in August:

• The SCOR-Geneva Risk and Insurance Review Best Paper Award went to Céline Grislain-Letrémy of CREST and Université Paris-Dauphine and Bertrand Villeneuve of Université Paris-Dauphine for their joint article “Natural Disasters, Land-Use, and Insurance”; 
• The SCOR-EGRIE Young Economist Award went to Richard Peter of University of Iowa and Pascal Toquebeuf of University of Grenobles-Alpes, for their joint article “Separating ambiguity and ambiguity attitude with mean-preserving capacities: Theory and applications”.

2019 Awards

Two prizes sponsored by the SCOR Foundation for Science and the SCOR group were awarded on Saturday, September 21, 2019, as part of the 46^th annual seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE): 

• The SCOR-Geneva Risk and Insurance Review Best Paper Award went to Miles Kimball of the University of Colorado and Christian Gollier of the Toulouse School of Economics for their joint article “New methods in the classical economics of uncertainty: Comparing risks”;
• The SCOR-EGRIE Young Economist Award  went to Lu Li of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, for her article “Opening up the black box: The impact of technological transparency on self-protection”.

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2018 Awards

During the 45^th annual seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE), two awards sponsored by the SCOR Corporate Foundation for Science and the SCOR group were presented: 

• The SCOR-Geneva Risk and Insurance Review Best Paper Award was presented to Justina Klimaviciute for his article titled “Long-Term Care Insurance and Intra-family Moral Hazard: Fixed vs Proportional Insurance Benefits”; 
• The SCOR-EGRIE Young Economist Best Paper Award was presented to Wanda Mimra and Christian Waibel of ETH Zurich, and Janina Nemitz of University of Zurich for their article titled “Voluntary Pooling of Genetic Risk: A Health Insurance Experiment”.

2017 Awards

During the 44^th annual seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE), two awards sponsored by the SCOR Corporate Foundation for Science and the SCOR group were presented on Monday, September 18, 2017: 

• The SCOR-Geneva Risk and Insurance Review Best Paper Award was presented to Michel Denuit, Louis Eeckhoudt, Liqun Liu and Jack Meyer for their article titled “Tradeoffs for Downside Risk-Averse Decision-Makers and the Self-Protection Decision";
• The SCOR-EGRIE Young Economist Best Paper Award was presented to Sebastian Ebert for his article titled “Decision Making When Things Are Only a Matter of Time”.

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