Open AccessINSURANCE MARKET MATURITY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN POLAND AND LITHUANIA
Author(s) -
Tomasz Bernat,
Dainora Grundey
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
technological and economic development of economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 2029-4921
pISSN - 2029-4913
DOI - 10.3846/13928619.2007.9637798
Subject(s) - maturity (psychological) , state (computer science) , business , planned economy , market economy , economics , economy , political science , algorithm , computer science , law
Market economy, functioning in most countries of the world, is built of markets operating within it. Overviewing its origin historically, we should analyse the stages of its development or transformations, which influenced its present form. The markets in the economies are more or less free and the economies are more or less market, depending on the state's policy, the citizens’ attitudes, the legal system etc [1, p. 19–20]. These factors form the functioning of individual markets with all the elements of their effects. The aim of the paper is the analysis of insurance markets in Poland and Lithuania in reference to EU‐15. It is subordinated to a research hypothesis, which states that insurance markets of the surveyed countries (Poland and Lithuania), which have experienced system transformations, are further formed according to the model of the developed-mature markets, which are functioning in market economies for many years.