doc. Ing. Zuzana Brokešová, PhD.

Faculty: Faculty of Economics and Finance

Department: Department of Insurance

Position: Associate Professor

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Scientific-pedagogical characteristics of the person

Second degree of higher education

Study field and programme: Insurance, 2009, University of Economics in Bratislava

Third degree of higher education

Study field and programme: Insurance, 2012, University of Economics in Bratislava

Associate professor

Study field and programme: Finance, Banking and Investment, 2022, University of Economics in Bratislava

Current and previous employment

Associate professor
University of Economics in Bratislava, Faculty of National Economy
March 2021 - present

Assistant professor
University of Economics in Bratislava, Faculty of National Economy
September 2012 - February 2021

Microdata analyst
National Bank of Slovakia
February 2018 - May 2018

Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

Pedagogical education of university teachers
University of Economics in Bratislava
2014

Train the trainer, a series of workshops aimed at bring current trends and approaches from the business environment into the university learning process
American Chamber of Commerce
2015, 2016

Training in statistical software SPSS
Acrea in cooperation with the University of Economics in Bratislava
2012

Training in presentation skills for PhD. students
Slovak Academic and Information Agency
2010

Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

Number of defended theses

Bachelor's (first degree): 25

Diploma (second degree): 39

Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases: 30

Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases: 73

Number of invited lectures at the international, national level: 1

The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

ADC BROKEŠOVÁ, Zuzana - PASTORÁKOVÁ, Erika - ONDRUŠKA, Tomáš. Determinants of insurance industry development in transition economies: empirical analysis of Visegrad group data. In Geneva papers on risk and insurance. - Geneva : The international association for the study of insurance economics. ISSN 1468-0440, 2014, vol. 39, pp. 471-492. ADC VUČETIĆ, M., BROKEŠOVÁ, Z., HUDEC, M., PASTORÁKOVÁ, E. Financial Literacy and Psychological Disaster Preparedness: Applicability of Approach Based on Fuzzy Functional Dependencies. In Information Processing & Management : An International Journal. - Oxford : ELSEVIER. ISSN 0306-4573, 2022, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 1-12 online. ADM CUPÁK, Andrej - KOLEV, Gueorgui I. - BROKEŠOVÁ, Zuzana. Financial Literacy and Voluntary Savings for Retirement: Novel Causal Evidence. - Registrovaný: Web of Science, Registrovaný: Scopus. In The European Journal of Finance. - London : Taylor & Francis. ISSN 1466-4364, 2019, no. 16, pp. 1606-1625. ADC BROKEŠOVÁ, Zuzana - DECK, Cary - PÉLIOVÁ, Jana. Comparing a risky choice in the field and across lab procedures. In Journal of Economic Psychology : Research in Economic Psychology and Behavioral Economics. - Amsterdam : Elsevier Science B.V. ISSN 0167-4870, August 2017, vol. 61, pp. 203-212. ADC BROKEŠOVÁ, Z., DECK, C., PÉLIOVÁ, J. Experimenting with purchase history based price discrimination. In International Journal of Industrial Organization. - Amsterdam : Elsevier Science. ISSN 1873-7986, 2014, vol. 37, pp. 229-237.

The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years

ADM CUPÁK, Andrej - KOLEV, Gueorgui I. - BROKEŠOVÁ, Zuzana. Financial Literacy and Voluntary Savings for Retirement: Novel Causal Evidence. - Registrovaný: Web of Science, Registrovaný: Scopus. In The European Journal of Finance. - London : Taylor & Francis. ISSN 1466-4364, 2019, no. 16, pp. 1606-1625.

ADC VUČETIĆ, M., BROKEŠOVÁ, Z., HUDEC, M., PASTORÁKOVÁ, E. Financial Literacy and Psychological Disaster Preparedness: Applicability of Approach Based on Fuzzy Functional Dependencies. In Information Processing & Management : An International Journal. - Oxford : ELSEVIER. ISSN 0306-4573, 2022, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 1-12 online.

ADD BROKEŠOVÁ, Z., ONDRUŠKA, T., PASTORÁKOVÁ, E. Determinants of Personal Risk Financing Strategies. In Ekonomický časopis, Bratislava : Ekonomický ústav SAV : Prognostický ústav SAV, 2023. - ISSN 0013-3035. - Roč. 71, č. 10 (2023),

ADM BROKEŠOVÁ, Z., DECK, C., PÉLIOVÁ, J. Pull-To-Center Is Not Just for Newsvendors. In Plos One. - San Francisco : Public Library of Science. ISSN 1932-6203, 2022, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 1-16 online.

ACA ONDRUŠKA, T. - BROKEŠOVÁ, Z., PASTORÁKOVÁ, E. Riadenie rizík a poisťovníctvo. 1. vydanie. - Praha : Wolters Kluwer ČR, 2022. - 395 s.

The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

APVV-19-0573, ‘Evidence-based policy making - economically efficient collection of voluntary donations’, 1.7.2020 - 30.6.2024, member of the research team. The research project includes understanding the relationship between voluntary provision of goods and services of high social value and recent advances in the relevant economics literature.

VEGA No. 1/0660/23, ‘Increasing financial resilience of individuals and households by supporting effective financial decisions', 1.1.2023 - 31.12.2026, responsible project investigator. The main objective of the project is to identify the possibilities of promoting effective financial decisions as a tool for increasing financial resilience of individuals and households, with particular emphasis on the role of effective decisions in the field of insurance.

Horizon Europe 101092639, 'Federated decentralized trusted dAta Marketplace for Embedded finance', 1.1.2023 - 31.12.2025, Co-investigator. The project aims to create a secure federated data marketplace for embedded finance (EmFi) and demonstrate the full potential of the data economy.

APVV-23-0329, 'Financial literacy and sources of information: how to improve financial decisions?', 1.9.2024 - 31.8.2027, member of the research team. The aim of this project is to clarify the importance of financial literacy and financial (in)information for economic and financial decisions of individuals in Slovakia.

KEGA č. 034EU-4/2016, ‘Implementation of innovative approaches in the insurance market teaching system based on interactive methods using experiment ‘, 1.1.2016 – 31.12.2017, team member. The project focuses on exploring innovations and new teaching methods in order to help students increase their logical thinking, teamwork, enhance knowledge through case studies and games, but also increase their ability to analytically solve practical situations while increasing communication, verbal and presentation skills of students and thereby contributing to greater adaptability to "non-standard" situations, not least for better employability.

Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

APVV-19-0573, ‘Evidence-based policy making - economically efficient collection of voluntary donations’, 1.7.2020 - 30.6.2024, member of the research team. The research project includes understanding the relationship between voluntary provision of goods and services of high social value and recent advances in the relevant economics literature.

VEGA No. 1/0660/23, ‘Increasing financial resilience of individuals and households by supporting effective financial decisions', 1.1.2023 - 31.12.2026, responsible project investigator. The main objective of the project is to identify the possibilities of promoting effective financial decisions as a tool for increasing financial resilience of individuals and households, with particular emphasis on the role of effective decisions in the field of insurance.

Horizon Europe 101092639, 'Federated decentralized trusted dAta Marketplace for Embedded finance', 1.1.2023 - 31.12.2025, Co-investigator. The project aims to create a secure federated data marketplace for embedded finance (EmFi) and demonstrate the full potential of the data economy.

APVV-23-0329, 'Financial literacy and sources of information: how to improve financial decisions?', 1.9.2024 - 31.8.2027, member of the research team. The aim of this project is to clarify the importance of financial literacy and financial (in)information for economic and financial decisions of individuals in Slovakia.

KEGA č. 034EU-4/2016, ‘Implementation of innovative approaches in the insurance market teaching system based on interactive methods using experiment ‘, 1.1.2016 – 31.12.2017, team member. The project focuses on exploring innovations and new teaching methods in order to help students increase their logical thinking, teamwork, enhance knowledge through case studies and games, but also increase their ability to analytically solve practical situations while increasing communication, verbal and presentation skills of students and thereby contributing to greater adaptability to "non-standard" situations, not least for better employability.

Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

Member of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of National Economy, University of Economics in Bratislava
Faculty of Economics and Finance, University of Economics in Bratislava
2015-2018, 2019-present

Member of the NHF Scientific Council
Faculty of Economics and Finance, University of Economics in Bratislava
2023 - present

Member of the Research Ethics Committee VŠE
Prague University of Economics and Business
October 2024 - present

Member of the subcommittee Economics
Faculty of Economics and Finance, University of Economics in Bratislava
2022 - present

Member of the subcommittee Finance
Faculty of Economics and Finance, University of Economics in Bratislava
2022 - present

Deputy Head of the Department for Pedagogical Activities and International Relations
Department of Insurance, NHF, EUBA
2015 - present

Member, Newsletter editor
Slovak Economic Society
2014 - present

Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

Macquarie Graduate School of Managemet (MGSM), Balaclava Rd, Macquarie Park NSW 2109, Sydney, Australia
September 2017 – January 2018,
visiting researcher
Jönköping University, Gjuterigatan 5, 553 18 Jönköping, Sweden
September 2016,
Erasmus + teaching mobility
University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508, USA
October 2015,
research stay as part of a research project supported by VUB bank
University of Strasbourg, 4 Rue Blaise Pascal, 67081 Strasbourg, France
April 2015,
Erasmus+ teaching mobility
University of Hohenheim, Schloß Hohenheim 1, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
June 2014,
Erasmus+ teaching mobility
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
June 2013,
research stay as part of a research project ESF