Ernst Meyer Prize
Sponsor: International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (Geneva Association)
Deadline: January 14, 2009
Citizenship or Residency / Activity Location: Unrestricted
The prize is 5,000 Swiss Francs
Abstract: The Geneva Association was established for the purpose of promoting economic research in the sector of risk and insurance. The consulting service of the association is at the disposal of professors, researchers, and students who seek advice regarding the definition of subjects for study, who wish to discuss their research programmes, contact specialists, or receive assistance with their bibliographical research.
Every year, the association awards the Ernst Meyer Prize for university research work that makes a significant and original contribution to the study of risk and insurance economics.
Similar: Geneva Association Research Grants - Ernst Meyer Research Grants
Deadline: September 30, 2008
More information at http://fundingopps.cos.com/cgi-bin/getRec?id=5325
Suggested themes and subjects in the area of economic theory include the following:
- Uncertainty: imperfect information in deterministic versus indeterministic models
- Insurance and risk management in the service economy
- Insurability and economic fundamentals
- Insurability: privatisation processes and public intervention
- The problem of the reinsurer of last resort
- Credibility theory (in actuarial sciences) and economics of scale
- Comprehensive theories of risk: defining, comparing, and integrating pure risks, and financial and entrepreneurial risks
- Fiscal policy, solidarity, and private insurance
- Monetary stability and its impact on pure risk management
- Systemic risks, the liability portfolio of insurance and pure risk management
- The changing role of capital in the contemporary service economy with respect to financial institutions
- The economic value of human life
Suggested themes and subjects in the area of economic practice include the following:
- Moral hazard and fraud in the management of pure risks and insurance
- Derivatives and their role for insurance on the assets and on the liability side
- Economics of health and medical care
- The development of technology in specific sectors and their impact on the insurability of risks
- Reinsurance markets
- The role of government, risk management, and insurance institutions with reference to catastrophic and environmental risks
- Financing the life-cycle, in particular with regard to the increasing life expectancy of those over sixty: the role of insurance and public institutions
- Productive activities, employment, and health
- National and international institutions, their impact on regulation, and solvency rules in the insurance market (European Union, World Trade Organisation, etc.)
- Fiscal policy and reserving for large low frequency risks
- Distribution strategies in insurance
- Emerging markets: problems and opportunities
The association reserves the right to support research on other subjects that may be submitted.