Best Paper Award

The Risks Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose three articles of exceptional excellence that were published in the journal two years prior and announce the winners online by the end of June. The next announcement will be in June 2025.

The Prize:
– Two research articles and one review will be selected.
– Each winner will receive CHF 300, a certificate, and a free voucher for article processing fees valid for one year.

 
Risks Best Paper Award
 
Winner announcement: 30 June 2025

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Risks in 2022 will be eligible (both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

28 pages, 5019 KiB  
Article
Financial Transactions Using FINTECH during the Covid-19 Crisis in Bulgaria
by Ivanka Vasenska, Preslav Dimitrov, Blagovesta Koyundzhiyska-Davidkova, Vladislav Krastev, Pavol Durana and Ioulia Poulaki
Risks 2021, 9(3), 48; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks9030048 - 5 Mar 2021
28 pages, 684 KiB  
Article
Automatic Indexation of the Pension Age to Life Expectancy: When Policy Design Matters
by Mercedes Ayuso, Jorge M. Bravo, Robert Holzmann and Edward Palmer
Risks 2021, 9(5), 96; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks9050096 - 13 May 2021
20 pages, 3502 KiB  
Article
Dataset Modelling of the Financial Risk Management of Social Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
by Elena G. Popkova and Bruno S. Sergi
Risks 2021, 9(12), 211; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks9120211 - 26 Nov 2021

Winner

26 pages, 1640 KiB  
Article
Nagging Predictors
by Ronald Richman and Mario V. Wüthrich
Risks 2020, 8(3), 83; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks8030083 - 4 Aug 2020
19 pages, 1920 KiB  
Article
A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Distance Driven on the Probability of Car Accidents
by Jean-Philippe Boucher and Roxane Turcotte
Risks 2020, 8(3), 91; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks8030091 - 1 Sep 2020
14 pages, 554 KiB  
Article
Financial Bubbles: A Study of Co-Explosivity in the Cryptocurrency Market
by Arianna Agosto and Alessia Cafferata
Risks 2020, 8(2), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks8020034 - 9 Apr 2020
31 pages, 2911 KiB  
Article
A Generative Adversarial Network Approach to Calibration of Local Stochastic Volatility Models
by Christa Cuchiero, Wahid Khosrawi and Josef Teichmann
Risks 2020, 8(4), 101; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks8040101 - 27 Sep 2020
79 pages, 1797 KiB  
Article
Machine Learning in Least-Squares Monte Carlo Proxy Modeling of Life Insurance Companies
by Anne-Sophie Krah, Zoran Nikolić and Ralf Korn
Risks 2020, 8(1), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks8010021 - 21 Feb 2020

Winner

19 pages, 389 KiB  
Article
Measuring and Allocating Systemic Risk
by Markus K. Brunnermeier and Patrick Cheridito
Risks 2019, 7(2), 46; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks7020046 - 26 Apr 2019
22 pages, 981 KiB  
Article
Pricing Options and Computing Implied Volatilities using Neural Networks
by Shuaiqiang Liu, Cornelis W. Oosterlee and Sander M. Bohte
Risks 2019, 7(1), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks7010016 - 9 Feb 2019
16 pages, 2386 KiB  
Article
Predicting Motor Insurance Claims Using Telematics Data—XGBoost versus Logistic Regression
by Jessica Pesantez-Narvaez, Montserrat Guillen and Manuela Alcañiz
Risks 2019, 7(2), 70; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks7020070 - 20 Jun 2019

Winner

32 pages, 851 KiB  
Article
An Individual Claims History Simulation Machine
by Andrea Gabrielli and Mario V. Wüthrich
Risks 2018, 6(2), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks6020029 - 30 Mar 2018
20 pages, 620 KiB  
Article
Credit Risk Analysis Using Machine and Deep Learning Models
by Peter Martey Addo, Dominique Guegan and Bertrand Hassani
Risks 2018, 6(2), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/risks6020038 - 16 Apr 2018
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