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• Kozarević, Safet
• Peressin, Laura
• Valentinuz, Giorgio

This article focuses on the insurance markets transition process in ten South Eastern Europe (SEE) post-communist countries. These insurance markets, characterized by a large number of small insurance companies, have been analyzed from several aspects in order to underline the main obstacles to their development. The research aims at identifying the relations between insurance market development and the European Union (EU) integration process as well as the overall economic development. To this end, indicators of the success in implementing these relevant processes have been identified and countries have been consistently ranked.

• Economics and Business

• Finance
• Economics

insurance, transition, post-communist countries, South-Eastern Europe

Περιέχει διαγράμματα, πίνακες και βιβλιογραφία, This research is the result of a wider collaboration among the Italian Association of Insurance Companies (ANIA), MIB School of Management and the Insurance Associations of S EE. ANIA and MIB School of Management have promoted a network with the Insurers’ Associations of SEE countries to exchange information and best practices and to develop research on the insurance industry in the region. The authors wish to thank ANIA and the Insurers’ Associations of SEE countries for their collaboration., JEL Classification: C82, G22, G28, P30

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