Overview
- Is an edited collection by leading insurance historians
- Explores reinsurance markets
- Provides the reader with new insights into the insurance
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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About this book
This book is an edited collection by leading insurance historians, examining the historical role of reinsurance (the insurance of insurers) in the insurance markets of eight countries: USA, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Japan. All the contributors are experts in their field and have widely published in insurance history, providing the reader with new insights into the insurance and economic history of these countries. In particular, this is the first book to explore the reinsurance markets in the USA, Netherlands, France, Italy and Mexico. This book will be of interest to economic and business historians, as well as insurance practitioners with an interest in the history of their industry.
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Keywords
- Reinsurance
- Regulatory Regimes and Markets
- History of insurance industry
- Reinsurance in America
- Dutch reinsurance
- Swedish Reinsurers
- French reinsurance in the 20th century
- Reinsurance industry in Italy
- Rural insurance and reinsurance markets in Mexico
- Life reassurance in Japan
- National reinsurance market in the Spanish Autarky
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas is a Professor in the Department of Economic History at the University of Granada, Spain.
André Straus is a researcher at the CNRS, Paris, France, where he is Directeur de recherches Emeritus and Professor at University Paris1 Panthéon Sorbonne. His main topics of research are in economic and financial history XIX-XX centuries, notably the history of banking, financial markets, insurance and reinsurance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Role of Reinsurance in the World
Book Subtitle: Case Studies of Eight Countries
Editors: Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas, André Straus
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74002-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74001-6Published: 20 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74004-7Published: 21 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74002-3Published: 19 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 300
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic History, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics