place of financial innovation. Fire insurance did not emerge immediately after that event because of the difficulties in … eventually led to relatively sophisticated fire insurance schemes …

public sector when insurance companies faced the prospect of collecting escalating premiums from their clients. To this day …

of fire insurances emerged as a post-disaster instrument of damage recovery. During the nineteenth century, insurance … -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Spaces, Value, Presentism: Premodern Insurance: -- 1 The Commercial Communication System … around 1400 -- 2 Insurance as an Accounting Trick between the World of Nature and the World of Values -- 3 Premiums of …

for the visual and narrative representation of that threat in every-day life. Institutional forms of fire insurance … charitable solidarity into risk communities, finally supplemented by networks of cosmopolite aid. After 1830, insurance agencies … is insurance can be studied as part of a critical archaeology of world risk society and the plurality of modernities"-- …

We consider a housing insurance market in which buildings have different damage probabilities. Insurers use imperfect … tests to find out about the buildings' damage types. The insurance market is a natural monopoly. If more than one insurer is … show that the natural insurance monopoly need not be sustainable. Then we show that in the equilibrium industry structure …