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Corporate Insurers in Antebellum America

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  • Wright, Robert E.
  • Kingston, Christopher

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Over the last fifteen years, scholars have documented the rapid development of the U.S. financial system between the ratification of the Constitution in 1788 and the Civil War. To date, most of this work has concentrated on commercial banks and securities markets while neglecting the roles early marine, fire, life, and other insurers played in American financial and economic development. This article seeks to redress the balance by presenting new data on the number and authorized capitalizations of specially incorporated insurers in all states prior to 1861, by analyzing agency problems within the insurance industry, and by describing the economic roles fulfilled by those hitherto underappreciated corporate financial intermediaries.

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  • Wright, Robert E. & Kingston, Christopher, 2012. "Corporate Insurers in Antebellum America," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 86(3), pages 447-476, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:86:y:2012:i:03:p:447-476_00
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