Crisis expand major risks that affects the insurers, such as: a rise in interest rates; fall in stock markets; decline in
property prices; the increasing of credit risk and government default; currency devaluation; higher inflation;
expansion of political risk.
Related to insurance market, some lessons can be learned from actual crises, that insurers should take into
consideration some actions: strengthen risk management and supervision; use and understand risk management; take heed of the lessons from agency and portfolio theory; introduction of supervision to financial conglomerates that need
to be supervised at the group level.
For the period before crisis, we find a continuous increase in the share of industry revenue from premiums earned
total premiums of life insurance business, especially in emerging countries, such Eastern Europe’s ones. Apparently,
the modest place held by Romania on the European insurance market is determined primarily by the small size of their
economy. There is, however, that in recent years due to high growth rate, well above the world and European average,
and Romania, besides other emerging markets, climbed in the ranking of insurance markets. From analyse, we learn
that No of enterprises and Personnel Costs are statistically significant on standard regression estimation, and level of
employment, GDP per capita and access to internet are statistically significant and has positive influential (as
assumed), in a panel data robust regression random effects.