DEVELOPMENT OF COMMERCIAL INSURANCE BUSINESS IN SLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY IN THE YEARS 1997 - 2006

• Authors: Kafková Eva , Kračinovský Martin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Insurance industry belongs to the most important branches of economy. It performs a couple of very important functions from the macroeconomic point of view: accumulation, redistribution, stimulation and control function. Insurance companies are big players on the financial market so insurance system deserves adequate attention. This paper deals with the development and comparison of insurance market in Slovakia and Hungary. Insurance becomes more and more significant and its development correspondents tight with national economy. The authors focused their attention on the selected most important indicators as follow: gross written premium, indemnity costs, technical reserves, investment activity and concentration in an insurance industry.

Keywords

EN

HERFINDAHL-HIRSCHMAN INDEX; INSURANCE INDUSTRY (SLOVAKIA & HUNGARY); INVESTMENT ACTIVITY; PREMIUM WRITTEN

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 384-401
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kafková Eva

• Faculty of Business Economics, University of Economics, Košice, Tajovského 13, 040 01 Košice, Slovak Republic

author

Kračinovský Martin

• E. Kafkova, Ekonomicky ustav SAV, Sancova 56, 811 05 Bratislava 1, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA04718999