Handbook of International Insurance

J. David Cummins-Harry J. Loman Professor of Insurance and Risk ManagementWharton School, University of Pennsylvania, July 1983 - presentExecutive Director, S. S. Huebner Foundation for Insurance EducationJuly 1988 - presentConsultant, 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 2005Visiting Research Fellow, Wharton Business School, USA (see below for details).2002 - nowProfessor of Management, AUDENCIA, Nantes School of Management, France. This school is amongst the top five in France.2000 - 2001Visiting Professor, London Business School, UK.1996 - 2002Professor of Management, ESSCA, France. ESSCA is recognised at the highest level by the «Conférence des Grandes Ecoles» in France.

• International Insurance Markets: Between Global Dynamics and Local Contingencies—An Introduction.- The United States Insurance Market: Characteristics and Trends.- The Japanese Insurance Market and Companies: Recent Trends.- The UK Insurance Industry—Structure and Performance.- The French Insurance Market: Background and Trends.- The German Insurance Industry: Market Overview and Trends.- The Italian Insurance Sector between Macro and Micro Facts: Salient Features, Recent Trends, and an Econometric Analysis.- A Descriptive Analysis of Canadian Insurance Markets.- Insurance in the Netherlands: Market Structure and Recent Developments.- The Structure, Conduct, and Performance of the Spanish Insurance Industry.- The Insurance Market in the Republic of Ireland.- China’s Insurance Industry: Developments and Prospects.- An Analysis of the Evolution of Insurance in India.- South African Insurance Markets.- Recent Developments in the Brazilian Insurance Market.- European Insurance Markets: Recent Trends and Future Regulatory Developments.- South and East Asian Insurance Market Growth and Development.- The Global Reinsurance Market.- Lloyd’s and the London Insurance Market: An Overview.- An Overview of the Alternative Risk Transfer Market.

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)