curriculum vitae

J. FRANCOIS OUTREVILLE
Profile
Research and teaching experience in the fields of risk management, international insurance, health
economics and insurance, government and employees benefits plans.
Career and professional experience
J. François Outreville est professeur associé de
finance et gestion des risques à l’école des HEC
Montréal et directeur de la revue Assurances et
Gestion des Risques. Il est fellow du Centre
International de Recherche en Economie (ICER) à
Turin (Italie).
J. François Outreville is adjunct professor of
Finance, Risk Management and Insurance in the
Department of Finance at HEC Montreal and
Director/Editor of Insurance and Risk Management
a bilingual Canadian Journal. He is a research
fellow at ICER-Turin (Italy).
Il était auparavant, depuis 1986, économiste à la
Conférence des Nations Unies pour le Commerce et
le Développement (CNUCED) à Genève et
Secrétaire exécutif et directeur de l'Assurance
Mutuelle Santé du Personnel des Nations Unies de
1992 à 2004.
He was previously, since 1986, an economist at the
United Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD), Geneva, and Executive Secretary and
manager of the United Nations Staff Mutual
Insurance Society from 1992 to 2004.
Avant de rejoindre la CNUCED, il a été professeur
de Finance et Gestion des Risques aux Etats-Unis à
l'Université du Texas à Austin et à l'Université
Laval à Québec, Canada. Il a aussi été professeur
invité à l'Université Nationale de Singapore et à
l’Université SUFE de Shanghai en Chine.
Before joining UNCTAD, he was an Associate
Professor of Finance and Risk Management at the
University of Texas in Austin, and at Laval
University in Québec, Canada. He was an invited
professor at the National University of Singapore
and at SUFE University in Shanghai, China.
Docteur d'Etat en Sciences Economiques de
l'Université d'Orléans, il est l'auteur de Protection
sociale et assurances collectives (Edilivre, Paris,
2011) et de Theory and Practice of Insurance
(Kluwer A.P., Boston, 1998) et de plus de 50
articles publiés dans des revues académiques et
portant sur l'analyse économique du rôle des
intermédiaires financiers et de l'assurance, le
commerce international de l’assurance, la théorie
des cycles en assurance et le rôle de l’assurance
dans le financement de la santé.
Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Orléans,
France, he is the author of Protection sociale et
assurances collectives (Edilivre, Paris, 2011) and
Theory and Practice of Insurance (Kluwer A.P.,
Boston, 1998). He has published more than 50
articles in academic journals on the economic role
of financial intermediaries and insurance activities,
international trade in insurance services,
underwriting cycles and health-care insurance
financing.
Il est aussi un passionné du vin et de l’économie du
vin. Il est membre des associations américaine
(AAWE) et européenne (EuAWE) des économistes
du vin.
He also pursues his passion for wine and wine
economics and he is a member of the American
(AAWE) and European (EuAWE) associations of
wine economists.
Books
Protection sociale et assurances collectives: Concepts, théorie et gestion financière,
Paris: Edilivre, 2011. http://www.edilivre.com/protection-sociale-et-assurances-collectives.html
Theory and Practice of Insurance, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
Most recent refereed journal articles
A commentary on home region internationalization in financial groups from emerging economies,
Multinational Business Review, vol. 21(2), 2013.
Multinational firms in the world wine industry: an investigation into the determinants of mostfavoured locations, (with Michael Hanni), Journal of Wine Research, vol. 24(2), 2013.
The relationship Between Insurance and Economic Development: 85 Empirical Papers for a
Review of the Literature, Risk Management and Insurance Review, vol. 16(1), 2013.
A Note on Geographical Diversification and Performance of the World’s Largest Reinsurance
Groups, Multinational Business Review, vol. 20(4), 2012.
The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review 2011: A Catalyst for New Research Ideas, The Geneva
Papers on Risk and Insurance, vol. 37, July 2012.
The World’s Largest Reinsurance Groups: A look at names, numbers and countries from 1980 to
2010, Assurances et Gestion des Risques, vol. 80(1), 2012.
Les services d’assurance: Mesure de leur rôle et création de valeur ajoutée, Revue d’Economie
Financière, no 106, Juin 2012.
The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review 2010: we have learned much since Willet and Knight,
The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, vol. 36(3), 2011.
Wine Production in Quebec: an investigation into the price-quality relationship, Enometrica, vol.
4(2), 2011. (VDQS best paper award, Enometrics XVII, Palermo (Italy).
Internationalization, Performance and Volatility: The World Largest Financial Groups, Journal of
Financial Services Research, vol. 38(2), 2010.
The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review 2009: in quest of behavioural insurance, The Geneva
Papers on Risk and Insurance, vol. 35(3), 2010.
Business Cycles in Insurance and Reinsurance: International Diversification Effects, (with U.
Meier), Applied Financial Economics, vol. 20(8), 2010.
Foreign Affiliates of the Largest Insurance Groups: Location-Specific Advantages, Journal of
Risk and Insurance, vol. 75(2), 2008.
Foreign Direct Investment in the Health Care Sector and Most-Favoured Locations in Developing
Countries, European Journal of Health Economics, vol. 8(4), 2007.
Foreign affiliates of the world largest financial groups: locations and governance, Research in
International Business and Finance, vol. 21(1), 2007.
Business cycles in insurance and reinsurance: the case of France, Germany and Switzerland,
(with U. Meier), Journal of Risk Finance, vol. 7(2), 2006.
Financement de la santé: Le rôle des assurances privées et publiques, Assurances et Gestion des
Risques, vol. 74(3), 2006.
Financial Development, Human Capital and Political Instability, Finance India, vol. 19(2), 2005.
Healthcare Expenditure and Ageing: a comment, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy,
vol. 3(3), 2004.