Kulp-Wright Book Award

The Kulp-Wright Book Award will be awarded to a book published in the field of Risk and Insurance that advances frontiers of knowledge in our field.

Past Winners

  • 2025: Liran Einav, Stanford University; Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ray Fisman, Boston University: Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What do Do About It
  • 2024: Josephine Wolff, Tufts University: Cyberinsurance Policy: Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks
  • 2023: Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich; Roland Eisen, Goethe University Frankfurt; David Eckles, University of Georgia: Insurance Economics, 2nd edition
  • 2022: Olivia Mitchell & Annamaria Lusardi: Remaking Retirement: Debt in an Aging Economy
  • 2021: Georges Dionne, Corporate Risk Management: Theories and Applications
  • 2020: Kip Viscusi, Pricing Lives: Guideposts for a Safer Society
  • 2019: Guy Thomas, Loss Coverage: Why Insurance Works Better with Some Adverse Selection
  • 2018: Edward W. Frees, Richard A. Derrig, and Glenn Meyers, Predictive Modeling Applications in Actuarial Science: Case Studies in Insurance
  • 2017: Moshe Milevsky, King William's Tontine: Why the Retirement Annuity of the Future Should Resemble its Past
  • 2016: Olivier Le Courtois and Christian Walter, Extreme Financial Risks and Asset Allocation
  • 2015: Georges Dionne, Handbook of Insurance published by Springer
  • 2014: Peter Zweifel and Roland Eisen, Insurance Economics
  • 2013: Michael Powers, Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance
  • 2012: Francis Diebold, Neil Doherty and Richard Herring, The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management