Call for Papers: Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Special Issue on Digital and AI Transformation in Insurance at The Geneva Association [Online Submission; Papers by 31 March 2027]
The Geneva Association.About the special issue
The Geneva Association announces a special April 2028 issue of The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance – Issues and Practice on Digital and AI Transformation in Insurance. Digital technologies, artificial intelligence, data science, InsurTechs, and automation are reshaping how risks are identified, priced, mitigated, transferred, managed, and regulated.
What the issue seeks
The issue welcomes high-quality empirical, experimental, policy-oriented, and practice-based contributions. It particularly encourages submissions that speak to broad academic debates while offering clear implications for insurance markets, insurers, consumers, regulators, and society.
Economics
- AI and digitalisation impacts, information frictions, adverse selection, moral hazard, risk classification, and welfare implications
- Algorithmic pricing, fairness, transparency, and consumer behavior
- Digital technologies, risk prevention, financial inclusion, platform competition, and the insurability of emerging risks such as climate, cyber, automation/robotisation, health, and longevity risks
Business, Strategy, and Operations
- AI-enabled underwriting, claims management, marketing, customer service, and risk engineering
- Generative AI, Agentic AI, human–AI collaboration, and organizational transformation in insurance firms
- Digital ecosystems, embedded insurance, open insurance, InsurTech, and platform-based business models
Regulation, Governance, and Public Policy
- Regulation of AI-enabled underwriting, pricing, claims management, distribution, and other automated decision-making
- Fairness, explainability, accountability, auditability, data privacy, and governance of insurance AI systems
- Supervisory technology, consumer protection, market conduct, and the balance between innovation, competition, fairness, and financial stability
Other topics
Papers on other topics related to digital and AI transformation in insurance are also welcome, including interdisciplinary studies that connect insurance with economics, finance, management, law, public policy, computer science, health, climate, cyber risk, and social sciences more broadly.
Review and editors
All contributions will go through a peer review process. The editors for this special issue are Dr. Anja Grujovic-Vischer (Geneva Association), Prof. Ruo (Alex) Jia (Peking University; Geneva Association) and Prof. Zhiyu (Frank) Quan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).
How to submit and deadline
Papers should be submitted electronically via the website of The Geneva Papers by 31 March 2027 at the latest. For further information on this special issue, contact Ruo (Alex) Jia at alex_jia@genevaassociation.org.