Handbook of International Insurance

1. International Insurance Markets: Between Global Dynamics and Local Contingencies—An Introduction
J. David Cummins, Bertrand Venard

2. The United States Insurance Market: Characteristics and Trends
Loftin Graham, Xiaoying Xie

3. The Japanese Insurance Market and Companies: Recent Trends
Nobuyoshi Yamori, Taishi Okada

4. The UK Insurance Industry—Structure and Performance
Philip Hardwick, Michel Guirguis

5. The French Insurance Market: Background and Trends
Bertrand Venard

6. The German Insurance Industry: Market Overview and Trends
Raimond Maurer, Barbara Somova

7. The Italian Insurance Sector between Macro and Micro Facts: Salient Features, Recent Trends, and an Econometric Analysis
Luigi Ventura

8. A Descriptive Analysis of Canadian Insurance Markets
Gilles Bernier, Alli Nathan

9. Insurance in the Netherlands: Market Structure and Recent Developments
Alfred Oosenbrug

10. The Structure, Conduct, and Performance of the Spanish Insurance Industry
María Rubio-Misas

11. The Insurance Market in the Republic of Ireland
Brian C. Greenford, Martin M. Mullins, John Garvey, Louise Morris, Liam O’Meara

12. China’s Insurance Industry: Developments and Prospects
Qixiang Sun, Lingyan Suo, Wei Zheng

13. An Analysis of the Evolution of Insurance in India
Tapen Sinha

14. South African Insurance Markets
Robert W. Vivian

15. Recent Developments in the Brazilian Insurance Market
Andrea Levy, Fernanda Chaves Pereira

16. European Insurance Markets: Recent Trends and Future Regulatory Developments
Paul Klumpes, Paul Fenn, Steven Diacon, Christopher O’Brien, Canan Yildirim

17. South and East Asian Insurance Market Growth and Development
Stephanie Hussels, Claire Sherman, Damian Ward, Ralf Zurbruegg

18. The Global Reinsurance Market
Thomas Holzheu, Roman Lechner

19. Lloyd’s and the London Insurance Market: An Overview
Julian James

20. An Overview of the Alternative Risk Transfer Market
Robert P. Hartwig, Claire Wilkinson

Keywords: Economics/Management Science, Business/Management Science, general, Finance /Banking, Management