Introduction

News

World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress
25-29 July 2010, Singapore

The European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists (EGRIE), The American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA), The Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association (APRIA) and The Geneva Association organise the Congress by merging their regional meetings into this global meeting every five years.

The purposes of the Congress are to stimulate corporate awareness and interest in risk-related research and to provide a forum for networking among academics and industry and government professional worldwide. The Congress is open to "all persons" who share an interest in promoting education and research in the broad areas of risk and insurance.

Scientific Committees of the Congress invite submission of proposals to present theoretical or applied research dealing with issues in risk management, insurance, actuarial science and related areas. The proposal deadline is 1 February 2010.

For more information about the Congress, visit its website at www.wriec.org or read the full announcement.

Membership to EGRIE is open to all risk and insurance researchers.

As part of annual membership to EGRIE, members will receive a print subscription to the GRIR, the official publication of EGRIE. Online-only access is also available.

Membership Rates 2009
Full membership: €90 / US$135
Student membership: €50 / US$75

To download a membership form and for more information, please click here.

The Geneva Association is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue on Climate Change and Insurance, in The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice (Volume 34, Issue 3, July 2009). This special issue covers the specific challenges and opportunities climate change presents to the global insurance industry and the sector’s role in supporting the transition to a more sustainable low-carbon economy. For more information, and to read the Geneva Association’s other related reports, please visit the homepage at www.palgrave-journals.com/gpp.

In 2008, Palgrave Macmillan announced its collaboration with the Geneva Association to publish the Geneva Risk and Insurance Review.

Keith Crocker and Pierre Picard, co-editors of The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, said: "All members of the GRIR editorial team look forward to a successful relationship with Palgrave Macmillan, which we are confident, will enhance the GRIR in many ways, including further profile in the economics and insurance research communities as well as enhanced institutional distribution."

Read the full press release. [PDF, 45KB]

The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review aims to publish:

• Authoritative contributions regarding risk, insurance and related areas
• Theoretical papers as well as empirical and/or experimental research for global dissemination
• New innovative ideas in insurance economics

The Journal’s direction is towards economics in general, focusing on risk and insurance in particular. Although most of the papers published are theoretical, GRIR also publishes tests and competing theories in order to expand understanding of insurance economics. The editors are especially interested in new and innovative ideas and see the topic area of ‘risk and insurance’ rather broadly, encouraging papers from related disciplines.

Published twice a year, this international journal endeavours to provide a forum for the exchange of academic findings and views, whilst also supporting and encouraging research for all those in the insurance industry who search for current innovations in their sector concerning risk, uncertainty and insurance.