2026 Georges Dionne: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	55	1081	959	28	23	390	9726

Overview

Georges Dionne is affiliated with HEC Montréal in Canada and specializes in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their research work spans main fields such as Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Demography, Accounting, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The primary topics of their research include:

Insurance and Financial Risk Management
Market Dynamics and Volatility
Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
Housing Market and Economics
Risk Management in Financial Firms

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Georges Dionne cover various themes within these domains:

"Reinsurance demand and liquidity creation: A search for bicausality" (2022), published in Journal of Empirical Finance
"A re-examination of the US insurance market's capacity to pay catastrophe losses" (2022), published in Risk Management and Insurance Review
"The impact of central clearing on the market for single-name credit default swaps" (2020), published in The North American Journal of Economics and Finance
"Forecasting expected shortfall: Should we use a multivariate model for stock market factors?" (2022), published in International Journal of Forecasting
"Asymmetric effects of the limit order book on price dynamics" (2021), published in Journal of Empirical Finance

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Dionne include:

Denise Desjardins
Mohamed Mnasri
Cédric Poutré
Gabriel Yergeau
Akouété Fenou

Dionne has published regularly in several academic venues, with multiple contributions to:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Assurances et gestion des risques
L Actualité économique
Journal of Empirical Finance
Risk Management and Insurance Review

Their research addresses various dimensions of financial and insurance markets, including liquidity creation, catastrophe loss capacity, credit default swaps, expected shortfall forecasting, and price dynamics linked to order book effects. This body of work reflects an intersection of theoretical and applied research in financial risk management and market behavior.

Best Publications

Risk Management: History, Definition and Critique

Georges Dionne

536
Citations
Self-insurance, self-protection and increased risk aversion

Georges Dionne;Louis Eeckhoudt

432
Citations
Testing for Evidence of Adverse Selection in the Automobile Insurance Market: A Comment

Georges Dionne;Christian Gouriéroux;Charles Vanasse

331
Citations
Handbook of insurance

Georges Dionne

322
Citations
NEW EVIDENCE ON THE DETERMINANTS OF ABSENTEEISM USING LINKED EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA

Georges Dionne;Benoit Dostie

248
Citations
AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE RATEMAKING IN THE PRESENCE OF ASYMMETRICAL INFORMATION

G. Dionne;C. Vanasse

225
Citations
A Generalization of Automobile Insurance Rating Models: The Negative Binomial Distribution with a Regression Component

Georges Dionne;Charles Vanasse

216
Citations
Insurance with undiversifiable risk: Contract structure and organizational form of insurance firms.

Neil A. Doherty;Georges Dionne

205
Citations
Workers' Compensation and Moral Hazard

Georges Dionne;Pierre St-Michel

201
Citations
Adverse Selection, Commitment, and Renegotiation: Extension to and Evidence from Insurance Markets

Georges Dionne;Neil A. Doherty

201
Citations
Risk Management and Corporate Governance: the Importance of Independence and Financial Knowledge for the Board and the Audit Committee

Georges Dionne;Thouraya Triki

187
Citations
The value of a statistical life: a meta-analysis with a mixed effects regression model.

François Bellavance;Georges Dionne;Martin Lebeau

178
Citations
Adverse Selection in Insurance Markets

Georges Dionne;Neil Doherty;Nathalie Fombaron

154
Citations
Contributions to insurance economics

Georges Dionne

142
Citations
APPLICATIONS OF THE GB2 FAMILY OF DISTRIBUTIONS IN MODELING INSURANCE LOSS PROCESSES

J.David Cummins;Georges Dionne;James B. McDonald;B.Michael Pritchett

128
Citations
Scaling models for the severity and frequency of external operational loss data

Hela Dahen;Georges Dionne

128
Citations
A Model for the Detection of Insurance Fraud

El Bachir Belhadji;George Dionne;Faouzi Tarkhani

128
Citations
DEBT, MORAL HAZARD AND AIRLINE SAFETY: AN EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

Georges Dionne;Georges Dionne;Robert Gagné;Robert Gagné;François Gagnon;Charles Vanasse

121
Citations
Risk management determinants affecting firms’ values in the gold mining industry: new empirical results

Georges Dionne;Martin Garand

119
Citations
Intraday Value at Risk (IVaR) using tick-by-tick data with application to the Toronto Stock Exchange

Georges Dionne;Pierre Duchesne;Maria Pacurar

118
Citations
Credit Risk: Pricing, Measurement, and Management

Viral Acharya

16
Citations
Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law

Georges Dionne

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis Eeckhoudt IESEG School of Management

J. David Cummins Temple University

Christian Gourieroux Toulouse School of Economics

Narjess Boubakri American University of Sharjah

Scott E. Harrington University of Pennsylvania

Christian Gollier Toulouse School of Economics

Dominique Lord Texas A&M University

James B. McDonald Brigham Young University

Montserrat Guillén University of Barcelona

Kenneth J. Singleton Stanford University

External Links

Personal website of Georges Dionne Google Scholar page

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