Annual Prize for Best Young Researcher in Finance and Insurance (IEF)
Each year, the SCOR Foundation for Science finances an award for the Best Young Researcher in Finance and Insurance, as part of the Europlace Finance Institute’s International Forum on Financial Risks.
The Institute Europlace of Finance (IEF), a registered public foundation, promotes research in finance with a focus on corporate needs. Through the Europlace Institute of Finance, the Louis Bachelier Fellows network supports short- and long-term research projects. The IEF launched The Best Young Researcher Award in 2005 for a promising researcher under the age of 40. The “Best Young Researcher in Finance and Insurance” award has been sponsored by the SCOR Foundation for Science since 2016. Candidates are nominated by the Scientific Board members of the Institut Louis Bachelier and the Scientific Board members of IEF. The Louis Bachelier Academic Fellows college votes for the winner(s).
The Institut Europlace de Finance (IEF), Fondation du Risque (FdR) and Institut Louis Bachelier (ILB) form together the Louis Bachelier Group. The backbone of the Louis Bachelier Group (ILB, FdR, IEF) and its network is research that aims to promote sustainable development in Economics and Finance. The Louis Bachelier Group currently hosts more than 60 research programmes within four main societal transitions: environmental, digital, demographic and financial.
PAST NEWS
2020 & 2021
The awards were presented as part of the international online forum on financial risks organized by the Europlace Finance Institute. The recipient of the 2020 award was Matthieu Bouvard, Professor of Finance at the Toulouse School of Management (University of Toulouse) and a member of the Toulouse School of Economics. The 2021 award winner was Kim Peijnenburg, Professor of Finance at EDHEC, a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a member of the Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Netspar).
Click here to read more and watch Mathieu and Kim present their research in the two videos below.
2019
As part of the Europlace Finance Institute’s 12th International Forum on Financial Risks, the SCOR Foundation for Science presented the award for the Best Young Researcher in Finance and Insurance to Guillaume Vuillemey, Professor at HEC, and Aurélien Alfonsi, Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, for all their work on the management and quantification of financial risks. The jury was chaired by Elyès Jouini, Vice-President of the Paris-Dauphine University and member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
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2018
As part of the Europlace Finance Institute’s 11th International Forum on Financial Risks, the SCOR Foundation for Science presented the award for the Best Young Researcher in Finance and Insurance to Catherine Bobtcheff, CNRS Researcher at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) for her work on the risk economy, investment dynamics and strategic interactions. The jury was chaired by Elyès Jouini, Vice-President of the Paris-Dauphine University and member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
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2017
At the 10th International Forum on Financial Risks, organized in Paris by the Europlace Institute of Finance, the SCOR Foundation for Science presented the Award for Best Young Researcher in Finance and Insurance to Dylan Possamaï, Professor at the Paris-Dauphine University, for all his work on risk and its quantifications. The jury was chaired by Elyès Jouini, Vice-President of the Paris-Dauphine University and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. This award is financed by the SCOR Foundation for Science.
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2016
As part of the Europlace Finance Institute’s 9th International Forum on Financial Risks, held on March 21 and 22, 2016 and based around “New challenges facing the investment management industry”, the SCOR Foundation for Science financed the award for the “Best Young Researcher in Finance”. This prize was awarded to Peter Tankov, Researcher at the Paris-Diderot University, and Johan Hombert, Researcher at HEC Paris.
