Intereconomics

, Volume 21, Issue 5, pp 246–250 | Cite as

Protectionism in international insurance transactions

  • Richard Senti
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Abstract

Efforts have been in progress for a number of years now to conclude an agreement on the regulation of international trade in services, including international insurance activities. The proposals put forward by the OECD, UNCTAD and GATT differ considerably from one another, as do those put forward by individual countries. How important is international insurance? What trade barriers exist today? What reforms have been proposed and what is the likelihood of their being realized?

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Life Insurance Foreign Company Trade Barrier Foreign Agency Transport Insurance 
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References

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    OECD: International Trade in Services, Insurance, Paris 1983, pp. 39 ff.Google Scholar
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    UNCTAD: Third world insurance at the end of the 1970s, TD/B/C. 3/169/Add. 1/Rev, 1, New York 1981, pp. 4 ff.Google Scholar
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    Ibid., UNCTAD: Third world insurance at the end of the 1970s, TD/B/C. 3/169/Add. 1/Rev. 1, New York 1981, pp. 11 ff.Google Scholar
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    Cf. the criticism of the Swiss Insurance Supervisory Council and of the restrictions on competition practised by insurance companies in Switzerland, in: Gerhard Schmid: Staatsaufsicht, Kartelle, Obligatorien und Pools im Bereich der Privatversicherung, in: Juristische Fakultät der Universität Basel (ed.): Festgabe zum Schweizerischen Juristentag 1985, p. 327 f.Google Scholar
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    Dieter Zoelly: Versicherungsabkommen—Testfall Schweiz/EG, in: Staatsbürger, 1982, No. 4, p. 31; on the EC-regulations cf. Marcel Grossmann: Die Versicherungs-Regelung in der EG, in: Schweizerische Versicherungs-Zeitschrift, 1981, No. 1, pp. 10 ff.Google Scholar
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    Cf. UNCTAD: Services and the development process, TD/B/1008, 2. 8. 1984, pp. 64 f.Google Scholar
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© HWWA and Springer-Verlag 1986

Authors and Affiliations

  • Richard Senti
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  1. 1.Center for Economic ResearchSwiss Federal Institute of TechnologyZurich

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