Professor Robin Pearson Professor of Economic History +44 (0)1482 466301 | R.Pearson@hull.ac.uk Faculty and Department Faculty of Business, Law and Politics Hull University Business School Related groups Marketing and Business Strategy Biography Outputs Research/PhD Recognition Qualifications PhD (University of Leeds) Summary Professor Pearson holds a Masters degree from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD from the University of Leeds. He has published widely on aspects of the British and European insurance industry and on themes such as financial services innovation, capital formation, corporate governance, business networking and moral hazard in a range of international journals including Economic History Review, Business History Review and Business History. His publications have been awarded the Newcomen-Harvard Article Award for Business History in 2002, the Wadsworth Prize for Business History in 2004 and the Ralph Gomory Prize for Business History in 2013. Recent outputs View more outputs Book Chapter The socio-economic setting for developing tontines from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries Pearson, R. (2018). The socio-economic setting for developing tontines from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. In P. Hellwege (Ed.), The Past, Present, and Future of Tontines: A Seventeenth Century Financial Product and the Development of Life Insurance (79-108). (1). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot Journal Article Normative practices, narrative fallacies? International reinsurance and its history Pearson, R. (in press). Normative practices, narrative fallacies? International reinsurance and its history. Business history, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1808885 Escaping from the State? Historical Paths to Public and Private Insurance Pearson, R. (2021). Escaping from the State? Historical Paths to Public and Private Insurance. Enterprise & society, 22(4), 1037-1066. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2020.26 The indigenous origins of UK corporate financial accountability: a comment Pearson, R. (in press). The indigenous origins of UK corporate financial accountability: a comment. Business history, https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2020.1769606 Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade Pearson, R., & Richardson, D. (2019). Insuring the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 417-446. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050719000068 Postgraduate supervision Prof Pearson is interested in supervising candidates working on a range of topics in modern economic, business and financial history since 1700, including international finance, capital exports, multinational business, corporate governance, urban development and social relations, social capital, mercantile and business networks, the insurance industry, aspects of risk and risk perception, the history of natural disasters, the interface of law, business and politics. Completed PhDs - Mika Suonpaa, British Perceptions of the Balkan Slavs: Professional and Popular Categorisations before 1914 (2008) Current PhD supervisions - George Borrinaga, A History of Community Resilience and Identity Formation in Samar and Lyte, Philippines, 1621-Present - Loreta Zydeliene, Conservation Ideas and Economic Realities: Assessing the Effect of the Great Depression on the Lithuanian Forest Landscape 1918-1940 Awards and prizes Ralph Gomory Prize for Business History 2013 - 2013 Prize for best book in business history, 2013 (Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), co-authors Mark Freeman and James Taylor. Awarded by US Business History Conference. Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2004 - 2005 Prize for best book in UK business history, awarded by UK Business Archives Council, November 2005, for Insuring the Industrial Revolution: Fire Insurance in Great Britain 1700-1850 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). Newcomen-Harvard Article Award for Business History 2002 - 2003 Pize for best artilce in business history, awarded by the Newcomen Society of the United States and Harvard Business School, November 2003, for “Moral Hazard and the Assessment of Insurance Risk in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain”, Business History Review, 76, no.1 (May 2002), pp. 1-35. Similar profiles Dr Wen-Ling Liu Marketing and Business Strategy Dr Qing Lu Marketing and Business Strategy Dr David Harness Marketing and Business Strategy Dr Fiona Walkley Marketing and Business Strategy