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The book is about reinsurance industry in several countries: France, Germany, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Japan but also expose the international develop of reinsurance that is essentially an international business. The authors are specialists in the field so the explanation is clear and exact.

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Despite being one of the main pillars of the insurance industry, reinsurance is little known by the general public and is rarely the focus of academic study. In this book, the authors - economic historians and experts in the field from across Europe and Japan - seek to address this by shedding light on one of the most globalized of all economic activities. In a clear and engaging manner, they reveal the history of reinsurance in both national and international contexts, aiming to illuminate this vital, but often overlooked, aspect of insurance.

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Content: Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas: Interview with José Manuel Martinez, President of Honour of MAPFRE - Takau Yoneyama: The Impact of Reinsurance upon Marine and Fire Insurance Markets in Japan, 1890-1923 - Yuri Petrov: Global Insurance Market and Sergey Yu. Witte´s Economic Policy - André Straus: International Reinsurance in the 1920s. - Christopher Kopper: From Actuaries to Scientific Research - Mats Larsson/Mikael Lönnborg: Swedish Life Reinsurance and Risk Management - Pablo Gutiérrez González/Jerònia Pons Pons: The Creation of Complex Reinsurance Networks in Spain (1880-1940) - Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas: The Development of Spanish Reinsurance from 1940 to the Present Day.

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André Straus is Directeur de Recherche Émérite at CNRS and Professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. He specializes in financial and monetary history, and his recent research concerned is with the history of insurance and reinsurance. He was the editor of the "Insurance and the World", special issue of Entreprises et Histoire No. 72, for which he wrote an article on France: "La concentration des entreprises d assurances en France depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale: réalités et limites".

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