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Role of Reinsurance in the World

Case Studies of Eight Countries

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Editors:
  1. Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas

    1. Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

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  2. André Straus

    1. Sorbonne University, Paris, France

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  • 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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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    • Hugh Rockoff
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Core Countries in Reinsurance

    • Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas, André Straus
    Pages 13-22

  4. Reinsurance in America: Regulatory Regimes and Markets

    • Robert E. Wright
    Pages 23-43

  5. Reinsurance in the Netherlands from 1800 till 1950: A Failure?

    • Ben P. A. Gales
    Pages 45-88

  6. The Rise and Fall of Swedish Non-Life Reinsurance

    • Mikael Lönnborg
    Pages 89-114

  7. The Ups and Downs of French Reinsurance in the Twentieth Century

    • André Straus
    Pages 115-146

  8. Currency Constraints, Risk Spreading Regulation, and the Corporate Demand for Reinsurance: A National Reinsurance Market in the Spanish Autarky (1940–1959)

    • Pablo Gutiérrez González, Jerònia Pons Pons
    Pages 147-171

  9. The Role of Foreign Reinsurance in the Setting of Insurance in Spain (1960–2000)

    • Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas
    Pages 173-195

  10. Few and Small: The Reinsurance Industry in Italy in the Twentieth Century

    • Giorgio Cingolani, Giandomenico Piluso
    Pages 197-229

  11. Government Intervention in Rural Insurance and Reinsurance Markets in Mexico: 1940–2000

    • Gustavo A. Del Angel
    Pages 231-254

  12. The Introduction of Life Reinsurance in Japan Before WWII

    • Takau Yoneyama
    Pages 255-269

  13. Conclusions: Reinsurance, Politics, and Missed Opportunities

    • Niels-Viggo Haueter
    Pages 271-290

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 291-300
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas

  • Sorbonne University, Paris, France

    André Straus

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

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