MAP20200016250Pons, JeróniaRisk and the insurance business in history / Jerònia Pons, Robin Pearson. — Madrid : Fundación MAPFRE, 2020290 p.En este libro, se presentan los trabajos y ponencias presentados en el Congreso "The Risk and the Insurance Business in History", celebrado entre el 11 y 14 de junio de 2019, en Sevilla, organizado por la Universidad Internacional de AndalucíaSumario: List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abstracts -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1. Risk and the Insurance Business in History: An Introduction -- Chapter 2. Taxing Journeys: British Life Insurance and the White Man's Burden, 1840-1914 -- Chapter 3. Agents, Regulations, and Scandals: US Life Insurance Companies in Late-Nineteenth-Century Latin America -- Chapter 4. Risk in Fire Insurance Law as an Empowerment Tool for the State during the Construction of Colonial Canada -- Chapter 5. Markets Created and Destroyed by the State: Casualty Insurance and the Experience of the Zurich Insurance Company 1850-1914 -- Chapter 6. Insurance and Regulation Modes in France and Spain from the End of the Nineteenth Century until the End of World War Two -- Chapter 7. Swedish Insurance Institutions and Efficiency 1920-1980 -- Chapter 8. Regulatory Over-Reaction to the Global Financial Crisis: Insurance Regulation in South Africa -- Chapter 9. Regulators and Valuation. Decoupling Insurance Assets from Market Pressure in Financial Crisis -- Chapter 10. Bancassurance at the Heights: The Banesto-Luyefe Case (1879-1993) -- Abbreviations of archive repositories - Bibliography -- Index
