tailieunhanh - The European Union Integration Process And Insurance Market Development: The Case Of The Pormer Yugoslav Countries

We are pleased to present the updated issue of publication „Social insurance in Poland – information, facts”. You will fi nd here current information on tasks exercised by the Social Insur- ance Institution (ZUS), current amounts of contributions and benefi ts provided for in the Polish social security system. Starting from 1 January 2009 payment of old-age benefi ts from the new old-age pension scheme, introduced in 1999, has started. For this reason we would like to pay particular attention to old-age pensions from the Social Insurance Fund | The European Union Integration Process AND Insurance Market Development The case of the Former Yugoslav countries Safet Kozarevic et al. IIF Occasional Paper Number 7 Bulgaria IIF Occasional Paper Number 7 The European Union Integration Process AND Insurance Market Development The case of the Former Yugoslav countries Safet Kozarevic . Associate Professor University of Tuzla Bosnia and Herzegovina and Fulbright Scholar Temple University Philadelphia PA USA Laureen Regan . Associate Professor Temple University Philadelphia PA UsA Robert J. Gibbons . CPCU CLU President International Insurance Foundation Washington DC USA International Insurance Foundation Washington DC USA About the Authors Safet Kozarevic is a member of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tuzla where he holds the rank of Associate Professor. He teaches courses in risk management and insurance quantitative methods in decision making operations management fundamentals of statistics business logistics and business decision making. He earned his . at the University of Tuzla with his dissertation Generalization of the model for conflict management in life insurance. For his Master of Science degree also from Tuzla he studied The possibilities of noncooperative game theory application for finding of equilibrium in competitive conditions. Dr. Kozarevic is an Authorized Actuary for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and serves on the Management Board of the Actuary Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is also a Member of the Management Board of the State Insurance Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a Fulbright Scholar from September 2007 to February 2008 Dr. Kozarevic was visiting professor in the Department of Risk Insurance and Healthcare Management at the Fox School of Business and Management of Temple University Philadelphia and at the International Insurance Foundation. This paper resulted from his research in that capacity and he acknowledges the support of the .