ARIA: Celebrating 75 Years!

Journal of Risk & Insurance

Published on behalf of the American Risk and Insurance Association

Edited by:
Georges Dionne, HEC Montréal

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2006: 26/42 (Business, Finance); 81/175 (Economics)
Impact Factor: 0.722

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The Journal of Risk and Insurance is the flagship journal for the American Risk and Insurance Association. The JRI is the most well recognized academic risk management and insurance journal in the world and is currently indexed by the American Economic Association's Economic Literature Index, the Finance Literature Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, ABI/Inform, Business and Company ASAP, Lexis-Nexis, Dow Jones Interactive, and others. All back issues, i.e., 1933-2001, are now available on JSTOR.

The Journal of Risk and Insurance publishes rigorous, original research in insurance and risk management. This includes the following areas of specialization:

1. Industrial organization of insurance markets;

2. Management of risks in the private and public sectors;

3. Insurance finance, financial pricing, financial management;

4. Economics of employee benefits, pension plans, and social insurance;

5. Utility theory and demand for insurance;

6. Asymmetric information, moral hazard, and adverse selection;

7. Insurance regulation;

8. Econometric, actuarial, and statistical methodology;

9. Economics of insurance institutions;

10.  Insurance cycles and economic cycles of insurance markets;

Both theoretical and empirical submissions are encouraged. Empirical work must provide tests of hypotheses based on sound theoretical foundations.

TopNews and Announcements

Online production tracking now available through Author Services!
Visit the Author Services website for a wealth of information for all authors plus online production tracking for your article.  Authors of articles in the Journal of Risk and Insurance can register to:
• track the production status of their article online
• choose to receive e-mail alerts on article status
• get free access to their article when it is published online

In addition, all authors visiting the site can access information and tips on:
• Article preparation
• Article submission
• Electronic artwork details
• And more features added over time!

TopHighlights

The Robert C. Witt Award is present each year for the article published the previous calendar year in The Journal of Risk and Insurance, judged to be the best by an independent committee of experts. Recent winners include:

• 2007: "Can Bonus-Malus Alleviate Insurance Fraud?" by Ignacio Moreno, Francisco Vazquez, and Richard Watt, Vol. 73,  No. 1, pp. 123-151.
   
• 2006 (tie): "Moral Hazard in Reinsurance Markets" by Neil Doherty and Kent Smetters, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 375-391.
   
• 2006 (tie): "Deterring Fraud: The Role of General Damage Awards in Automobile Insurance Settlements" by David S. Loughran, Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 551-575. 
   
• 2005: "A Comparison of HMO Efficiencies as a Function of Provider Autonomy" by Patrick L. Brockett, Ray E. Chang, John J. Rouseeau, John H. Semple, Chuanhou Yang, Vol. 71, No. 1, pp 1-19.
   
• 2004: "Fixed Reimbursement Insurance: Basic Properties & Comparative Statics" by Louis Eeckhoudt, Olivier Mahul, and John Moran, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 207-218.
   
• 2003: "The Cost of Pension Insurance" by Steven Boyce and Richard Ippolito, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 121-170.