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Annual EGRIE Awards, presented by the SCOR-TSE Chair

Annual EGRIE Awards, presented by the SCOR-TSE Chair

Under the aegis of the SCOR-TSE “Risk Markets and Value Creation” chair, the SCOR Foundation and the SCOR group sponsor two awards each year during the annual seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE): the SCOR-Geneva Risk and Insurance Review Best Paper Award and the SCOR-EGRIE Young Economist Award. 

The aim of the “Risk Markets and Value Creation” chair is to support theoretical and applied research on risk sharing and on longevity risk, combining methodologies from financial economics, industrial organization and econometrics. 

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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 47th 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 46th 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 45th 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 44th 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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Award Previous Articles
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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 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"

2020
Céline Grislain-Letrémy and Bertrand Villeneuve
"Natural Disasters, Land-Use, and Insurance"

2019
Miles Kimball and Christian Gollier 
"New methods in the classical economics of uncertainty: Comparing risks"

2016
Vickie Bajtelsmit and Paul Thistle
"Liability, Insurance and the Incentive to Obtain Information about Risk"

2015
Georges Dionne and Casey Rothschild
"Economic Effects of Risk Classification Bans"

2014
Pierre Picard and Jean Pinquet
"Optimal Risk Financing in Large Corporations through Insurance Captives"

2013
W. Henry Chiu
"Risk Aversion, Downside Risk Aversion and Paying for Stochastic Improvements"

2012
Christian Gollier
"On the Underestimation of the Precautionary Effect in Discounting"