VSFS:D_PTP Insurance Theory and Policy - Course Information
D_PTP Insurance Theory and Policy
University of Finance and AdministrationWinter 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: DZk (doctoral examination).
- Guaranteed by
- prof. Ing. Jaroslav Vostatek, CSc.
Department of Finance – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Dita Egertová - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- At the end of this course the student will be able to understand the issues the selected private insurance theory and its connection with the theory and policy in the field of social security, public finance and risk management. It ia questions about the privatization of social security, the pillars of the social and private security.
- Learning outcomes
- After passing the course the student will be able to analyze individual parts of the systema and models of private insurance and social insurance in Czechia or in the world, as a follow-up to different welfare regimes. He/she will be able to write an expert paper e.g. on reforms of the financing of pensions or healthcare, too. The student will have ability to review professionally the government or MPs´ bills from the area of private and social insurance. We may expect tha he/she will be able to design e.g. a Czech pension reform. We expect also the readiness to international scientific co-operation.
- Syllabus
- Methods of private and social protection, social and private insurance
- Social security and income taxation
- Life assurance development trends
- Classic life assurance, product and price policy
- Universal and unit-linked life assurance, product and price policy
- Private and social accident insurance
- Private and social sickness and disability insurance
- Private, social and public health insurance: products
- Mandatory private health insurance and its regulation
- Private, social and national old-age insurance
- Mandatory old-age insurance and savings
- Survivors´ insurance, pension funds
- Literature
- required literature
- Vostatek, J.: Penzijní teorie a politika. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2016
- Daňhel, J. a kol.: Pojistná teorie. Praha: Professional Publishing, 2005.
- Vostatek, J.: Sociální a soukromé pojištění. Praha: Codex Bohemia, 2000.
- • Ducháčková, E.: Pojištění a pojišťovnictví. Praha: Ekopress, 2015
- • Vostatek, J.: Sociální úrazové modely a české pojištění odpovědnosti za pracovní úrazy a nemoci z povolání. FÓRUM sociální politiky, 2019, č. 6
- recommended literature
- • Ducháčková, E., Daňhel, J.: Teorie pojistných trhů. Učebnice. Praha: Professional Publishing, 2010
- Meyer, H. D.: Ratgeber Versicherung & Altersvorsorge. München: Heyne, 2001.
- Theis, A. C.: Die deutsche Lebensversicherung als Alterssicherungsinstitution. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2001.
- • Hlavička, L.: Jaroslav Vostatek: Ekonomickou krizi je třeba uchopit jako novou podnikatelskou příležitost. Rozhovor. Pojistný obzor, 2021, č. 1
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and seminars
- Assessment methods
- Seminar paper. Exam
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
General note: Předmět doktorského studia.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin KS/semestr.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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