Handbook of International Insurance: Between Global Dynamics and Local Contingencies
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"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.
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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.
