Handbook of International Insurance

Insurance and financial markets have been radically and deeply changed in the last 20 years. Deregulation, internationalization of insurance and financial institutions, increasing competition, electronic commerce, bancassurance, and the emergence of new risks are among the challenges faced by insurers and other financial firms. These developing trends pose both global and local challenges for financial firms participating in insurance markets.

"The Handbook of International Insurance: Between Global Dynamics and Local Contingencies" increases understanding of insurance markets by adopting an international comparative approach. Leading scholars and practitioners worldwide provide detailed information on market trends, regulation, taxation, and economic developments for thirteen specific countries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Each country chapter covers key aspects of insurance: life insurance, non-life insurance, and public and private social insurance programs.

The book also includes comprehensive chapters on reinsurance, Lloyd’s of London, alternative risk transfer, South and East Asian insurance markets, and European insurance markets. Setting the stage is an overview chapter by the editors focusing on overall conclusions on globalization. A unique source of information on the evolution of insurance markets worldwide, this book provides valuable perspectives for scholars, practitioners, and policy makers.

From the reviews:

"This volume consists of an impressive collection of chapters on insurance markets … . the Handbook can serve as a useful reference for researchers and practitioners … . Overall, this Handbook fulfills its role as an encyclopedic collection of information that will be useful to insurance market students, researchers, and practitioners. … it will do well on the bookshelves of all market participants who seek to understand the increasingly global insurance market." (Greg Nini, Journal of Pension Economics & Finance, Vol. 7 (3), November, 2008)

J. David Cummins-Harry J. Loman Professor of Insurance and Risk Management

Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, July 1983 - present

Executive Director, S. S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education

July 1988 - present

Consultant, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, September 2000-August 2001.

Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2002-2003.

Metzler Chair, University of Frankfurt, Germany, summer 2000.

Associate Editor, Journal of Risk and Insurance, 1998-present.

Fellow, Wharton Financial Institutions Center, 1996-present.

Editor, Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance and Economic Security

(series of scholarly books published by Kluwer Academic Publishers)  etc.

Bertrand Venard-

2003 to 2005

Visiting Research Fellow, Wharton Business School, USA (see below for details).

2002 - now

Professor of Management, AUDENCIA, Nantes School of Management, France. This school is amongst the top five in France.

2000 - 2001

Visiting Professor, London Business School, UK.

1996 - 2002

Professor of Management, ESSCA, France. ESSCA is recognised at the highest level by the «Conférence des Grandes Ecoles» in France.