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The Italian insurance market has undergone a series of profound modifications over the last decade. This is immediately apparent by looking at the performance of the market in terms of premiums collected, volume of investments, and profits earned, and also by looking at the number and variety of insurance instruments that have been launched on the market and at the distribution of such instruments among households. Moreover, transformation is even more evident if we compare the statistics of the Italian market with those of the markets of other European countries that possess a similar structure.
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Ventura, L. (2007). The Italian Insurance Sector between Macro and Micro Facts: Salient Features, Recent Trends, and an Econometric Analysis. In: Cummins, J.D., Venard, B. (eds) Handbook of International Insurance. Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance and Economic Security, vol 26. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34163-7_7
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