Marketing and Pricing Risk in Marine Insurance in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp data

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jeroen Puttevils, University of Antwerp; Marc Deloof, University of Antwerp

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Project Citation: 

Puttevils, Jeroen, and Deloof, Marc. Marketing and Pricing Risk in Marine Insurance in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp data. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-06-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/E100774V1

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Drawing on a set of insurance contracts brokered in Antwerp in 1562–1563, we demonstrate that by that time Antwerp hosted a sophisticated, large, and international market for marine insurance in which small and large traders could acquire and sell insurance, backed by the intermediation of a large broker, Juan Henriquez who functioned as an open-access institution. Using information from Henriquez’s ledgers which was also available to underwriters, we find that insurance premiums reflected the underlying risk and that agents were able to determine the effect of different contract parameters.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources Research Foundation Flanders - FWO Vlaanderen

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Economic History; Financial history
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Europe
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1562 – 1563
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; event/transaction data; program source code


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