Peter Borscheid's research while affiliated with Philipps University of Marburg and other places

Publications (2)

Book
Since the end of the eighteenth century, the insurance industry has cast a safety net around the world, first in the British Isles and then further afield, irrespective of cultural, political and ideological divides. Unlike previous publications on insurance history, which tend to discuss the development of national markets or individual companies,...
Article
At the turn of the nineteenth century, modern insurance started to spread from the British Isles around the world. Outside Europe and the European offshoots in North and South America, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, it began to compete with other forms of risk management and often met with stiff opposition on religious and cultural groun...

Citations

... g. Alborn 2009;Borscheid and Haueter 2012;Van Leeuwen 2016). By focusing mostly on individual case studies, this literature, with a few exceptions of two-country (Kingston 2007) or large-n studies (Enz 2000), has not explicitly addressed the question of how and why insurance industries across different countries have come to look so dissimilar for such a long period. ...
... Insurance penetration in the ASEAN countries continues to display enormous variations that can only partially be accredited to economic conditions. Borscheid and Haueter (2015) argue that legal environment will contribute to the change. Moreover, there is rising concern among business participated in B&R projects about the intensity of regulation at both regional and international levels. ...