19 Jun 2025
Dr. Julia Holzapfel receives the Ernst Meyer Prize 2025 for her dissertation “Essays on Information Asymmetries and Risk Classification in Insurance.” From 2020 to 2024, she was a research associate at the Institute for Risk Management and Insurance.
Every year, the Geneva Association, the international association for the study of insurance economics, awards the prestigious Ernst Meyer Prize for university research work, usually in the form of a doctoral dissertation, that makes a significant and original contribution to the study of risk and insurance economics.
Dr. Julia Holzapfel receives the Ernst Meyer Prize 2025 for her dissertation “Essays on Information Asymmetries and Risk Classification in Insurance.” From 2020 to 2024, she was a research associate at the Institute for Risk Management and Insurance.
In her dissertation, Dr. Julia Holzapfel analyses how new risk-classification technologies, such as usage-based insurance and genetic information, affect market dynamics and fairness in insurance contracts.
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