KFPOTR Insurance Market

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Svatopluk Nečas, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Viktória Čejková, Ph.D.
Department of Finance – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Iva Havlíčková
Timetable
Sat 25. 10. 8:30–11:50 P303, Sun 23. 11. 8:30–11:50 P304
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of this course, students should be able to:
- understand and explain the theory of the insurance market and clarify the investment activities of insurance institutions and their instruments;
- clarify the regulation of the insurance market;
- characterize an insurance market in the Czech Republic and the Single EU insurance market and analyze both of them;
- analyze segments and subjects of the Czech insurance market, the current division of the insurance market by commercial insurance companies and indicators evaluating the performance of the market.
Syllabus
  • 1. Basic connection between the financial market and insurance market
  • 2. Insurance market and its segmentation
  • 3. Factors affecting the development of the insurance market
  • 4. Basic indicators of level of insurance market
  • 5. Additional indicators of level of insurance market
  • 6. Regulation of insurance market
  • 7. Factual insurance market - in general and specifically in Czech Republic
  • 8. Analysis of insurance market in Czech Republic for previous year
  • 9. Commercial insurance companies and their offer of insurance products
  • 10. Investment insurance market - in general and specifically in Czech Republic
  • 11. Investment activities of commercial insurance companies, commercial insurance company's investment strategy
  • 12. European insurance market - legislative development
  • 13. European insurance market in figures
  • Tutorials organised in two four-hour blocks will cover above mentioned topics as follows:
  • 1. Topics No. 1 - 6
  • 2. Topics No. 7 - 13
Literature
  • ČEJKOVÁ, Viktória. Pojistný trh (Insurance market). 1st ed. Praha: GRADA Publishing, spol. s r. o. Praha, 2001, 120 pp. ISBN 80-247-0137-5. info
  • ČEJKOVÁ, Viktória and Svatopluk NEČAS. Pojistný trh. 1st ed. Brno: MU ESF v Brně, 2005, 105 pp. ISBN 80-210-3661-3. info
  • DUCHÁČKOVÁ, Eva. Principy pojištění a pojišťovnictví. Vyd. 1. Praha: Ekopress, 2003, 178 s. ISBN 808611967X. info
  • BAKEŠ, Milan. Finanční právo. 3. vyd. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2003. info
  • Chovan,Pavel-Čejková,Viktória.Malá encyklopédia poistenia a poisťovníctva,s cudzojazyčnými ekvivalentami,ELITA,Bratislava,1995,ISBN 80-85323-84-2
  • PŮLPÁN, Karel. Slovník bankovnictví, pojišťovnictví a kapitálových trhů. [Praha]: Public History, 1998, 328 s. ISBN 80-902193-2-2. info
  • MUSÍLEK, Petr. Finanční trhy a investiční bankovnictví. Praha: ETC Publishing, 1999, 852 s. ISBN 80-86006-78-6. info
  • VOSTATEK, Jaroslav. Sociální a soukromé pojištění. Vyd. 1. Praha: CODEX Bohemia, 1996, 601 s. ISBN 80-85963-21-3. info
  • Zákon č. 409/2004 Sb., o pojišťovnictví
Assessment methods
Type of teaching: tutorials
Requirements for admission to the exam:
Submission of seminar papers (referred to as POT) with the assessment passed, otherwise (assessment failed) a student will not be admitted to the exam.
The exam has a written form.
The final mark is made up of the result of an exam test (maximum 10 points), and possibly also of the assessment of the seminar paper (a bonus of up to 1 point).
Grading scale:
A: 90 - 100% (9 - 10 points),
B: 85 - 89% (8.5 - 8.9 points),
C: 75 - 84% (7.5 - 8.4 points),
D: 70 - 74% (7.0 - 7.4 points),
E: 60 - 69% (6.0 - 6.9 points),
F: less than 60% (less than 6 points).
If a student commits a prohibited act, such as using various forbidden tools (e.g. cheatsheets), cribbing, taking out any part of the test or any other form of cheating, the teacher is allowed to interrupt the test and to grade the student with F, FF or even FFF, according to the seriousness of the offence. The described procedure applies to all the activities that are included in the final evaluation of the course (semester paper).
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007.
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