Geneva Association Research Grants
Every year, the Association offers two grants for research into risk and insurance economics. The deadline for submission of applications is end of November 2010. Suggested themes and subjects are:
Economic theory:
* 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, 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.
Economic practice:
* 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 60: 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 Organization, 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 which may be submitted.
Each grant is worth 10,000 Swiss Francs and covers a period of 10 months.
The grants are primarily intended for research for a thesis leading to a doctor degree in economics.
Subsidies for Theses
The Association grants authors of university theses, already submitted and dealing in depth with a subject in the field of risk and insurance economics, a subsidy of up to 3,000 Swiss Francs to help defray printing costs.
►Applications for research grants or subsidies for theses must be accompanied by a curriculum vitae, a description of the research undertaken and letters of recommendation from two professors of economics.
Please send your application before 30 November 2010 to:
The Geneva Association
“Research Grants”,
General Secretariat
Route de Malagnou 53
CH-1208 GENEVA
Email: secretariat@genevaassociation.org
