What shapes and drives capital market development over the long run? In this paper, using
the asset portfolios of UK life assurers, we examine the role of regulation, historical …

This article traces the history of the first Chinese life insurance company: the China United
Assurance Society. China United was founded in Shanghai in 1912 as a purely Chinese …

No. We document two empirical facts for the US life insurance sector during the 1918–19
Influenza pandemic. First, we find no significant differences among US insurers' profitability …

This paper considers the post‐war development of asset management practices among A
ustralian life insurers, which have historically been among the largest institutional investors …

The chapter is divided into two parts and starts with the history of the major institutions in the
financial landscape. The size, age and importance of British financial institutions have …

This chapter examines the story of Mapfre, a Spanish insurer that commenced as a mutual in
1933 and converted to a stock company at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Mapfre's …

As the 20th century came to a close, increased competitiveness, globalisation, and
deregulation heralded the end of the historically dominant mutual structures within the …

The list of selected publications including book reviews, published in English and excluding
articles published in Accounting History, is intended to assist accounting history researchers …

Very few long-term studies exist of corporate bond markets. We analyse the Australian
domestic corporate bond market, 1915-83, measuring how and why it changed, and which …

Using a novel, hand-collected dataset of US life insurance companies during the Influenza
Pandemic of 1918–19, we show that high-exposure firms charged higher prices on new …