The Mehr Award is presented each year for the paper published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance ten years ago that has best stood the test of time.
Award Recipients
Recent recipients of the Robert I. Mehr Award include:
2019
Scott E. Harrington, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
“The Financial Crisis, Systemic Risk, and the Future of Insurance Regulation”
JRI, Vol. 76, No. 4, 785-819, December 2009
2018
Okmyung Bin, East Carolina University
Jamie Brown Kruse, East Carolina University
Craig Landry, University of Georgia
“Flood Hazards, Insurance Rates, and Amenities: Evidence from the Coastal Housing Market”
JRI, Vol. 75, No. 2, 63-82, March 2008
2017
Kenneth A. Froot, Harvard University
“Risk Management, Capital Budgeting, and Capital Structure Policy for Insurers and Reinsurers”
JRI, Vol. 74, No. 2, 273-299, June 2007
2016
David Blake, Cass Business School
Andrew J. G. Cairns, Heriot-Watt University
Kevin Dowd, Durham University
“A Two-Factor Model for Stochastic Mortality with Parameter Uncertainty: Theory and Calibration”
JRI, Volume 73, Number 4, pages 687-718, 2006
2015
Yijia Lin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Samuel H. Cox, Georgia State University
“Securitization of Mortality Risks in Life Annuities”
JRI, 2005, Vol. 72, No. 2, 227-252
2014
Michael Braun, Southern Methodist University
Alexander Muermann, WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
“The Impact of Regret on the Demand for Insurance”
JRI, December 2004, Vol. 71, Number 4
2013
Jeffrey R. Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Redistribution and Insurance: Mandatory Annuitization with Mortality Heterogeneity”
JRI, 70(1): 17-41
2012
Anders Grosen, Aarhus University
Peter Lochte Jorgensen, Aarhus University
“Life Insurance Liabilities at Market Value: An Analysis of Insolvency Risk, Bonus Policy, and Regulatory Intervention Rules in a Barrier Option Framework”
JRI March 2002, V. 69 #1, pp. 63-91
2011
David Blake, Cass Business School, City University London
William Burrows, Better Retirement Group Ltd London
“Survivor Bonds: Helping to Hedge Mortality Risk”
JRI June 2001, 68:2, pp. 339-348
2010
Shaun S. Wang, Georgia State University
“A Class Distortion of Operators for Pricing Financial and Insurance Risks”
JRI March 2000, V. 67 #1, pp. 15-36
2009
J. David Cummins, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Martin Grace, Georgia State University
Richard Phillips, Georgia State University
“Regulatory Solvency Prediction in Property-Liability Insurance: Risk-Based Capital, Audit Ratios, and Cash Flow Simulation”
JRI, September 1999, V. 66 #3, pp. 417-458