Role of Reinsurance in the World

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.

• 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

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

  Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas

• Sorbonne University, Paris, France

  André Straus

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.

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