Call for Papers

• Published date: 01 September 2016
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/jori.12174
• Date: 01 September 2016

Call for Papers

Risk Theory Society Annual Seminar

May 5-7, 2017

University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI

Submissions due December 16, 2016

The Risk Theory Society is a group of economists, financial economists, and actuaries who

undertake theoretical and applied research in the areas of insurance economics, financial economics

related to insurance markets, actuarial science, and more generally in the economic analysis of risk

and uncertainty. Membership in the society is earned by presenting a paper at the annual seminar and

forfeited by missing two consecutive meetings.

The society invites interested parties to submit papers for the 2017 meeting. Each paper accepted for

the meeting is given one hour and fifteen minutes for presentation and defense by the authors. The

first twenty minutes of that time are reserved to be free of interruption other than for questions of

clarification. After the grace period, discussion is typically vigorous.

Over the past 10 years, the number of submissions ranged from 42 to 69 with an average of 51. Ten

papers were selected each year. Although we accept submission of a five-page abstract, most

submissions and most accepted papers were in full draft or essentially completed form.

Submissions are due on December 16, 2016. The program committee will notify authors of accepted

papers by end of January 2017, or soon thereafter. Accepted papers must be completed and sent for

posting on the Risk Theory Society web page by March 1, 2017.

Submissions should be e-mailed as attachments in the Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf) by

December 16, 2016, to:

Professor Patty Born

Secretary of the Risk Theory Society

Department of Risk Management/Insurance, Real Estate and Legal Studies

College of Business

Florida State University

E-mail: pborn@business.fsu.edu

For more information, contact Patty Born or visit the Risk Theory web site at http://aira.org/rts. For

details regarding local arrangements for the 2017 Seminar, please visit the web site or contact

Professor Joan Schmit at joan.schmit@wisc.edu.