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.
About the Author: 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.
