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Risk management and reinsurance strategies in the Spanish insurance market (1880–1940)

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  • Pablo Gutiérrez González
  • Jerònia Pons Pons

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Reinsurance allows insurance companies to diversify their risks. However, from this original role, insurance companies have developed various reinsurance strategies in order to expand their market share. From the last decades of the nineteenth century to the 1940s, Spanish insurance companies used reinsurance in a largely unregulated context. This article analyses the reinsurance practices and their adaptation to the singularities of the Spanish market, namely: the difficulties for the consolidation of a core of pure reinsurers; the management of reinsurance in the internationalisation process; and the use of reinsurance by mutual societies to overcome their lack of equity capital.

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  • Pablo Gutiérrez González & Jerònia Pons Pons, 2017. "Risk management and reinsurance strategies in the Spanish insurance market (1880–1940)," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 59(2), pages 292-310, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bushst:v:59:y:2017:i:2:p:292-310
    DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2016.1187136
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