[摘要]保险产品是以“经济保障”为本质特征的劳务产品,保险产品的特殊性使其质量度量较一般商品要困难得多。保险产品质量的度量成本是一种交易成本,直接影响保险市场交易活动,成为制约保险业发展的重要因素。降低保险产品的度量成本,关键在于提高保险市场的信息传递效率,需要降低质量度量成本的制度安排。 [关键词]保险产品;质量度量;产品质量;交易成本;信息不对称;制度安排 [中图分类号] F840.32 [文献标识码] A [文章编号]1004-3306(2006)04-0071-03 Abstract: Insurance products are a service product characterized by “economic protection”. The uniqueness of insurance products makes measurement of its quality more different than ordinary goods. Insurance product quality’s measurement cost is a kind of trading cost, directly affecting trading activities on the insurance market. Therefore it has become an important factor that restricts development of the insurance industry. The key to lower this cost lies with improving the efficiency of information transmission and enforcement of corresponding policies. Key words:insurance products;quality measurement;product quality;trading cost;information asymmetry;policy arrangement