既有研究表明保险业发展能够促进经济增长,但对保险业市场结构的变化能否提升经济增长质量的研究却相对偏少。本文构建了一个包含经济增长的驱动要素、结构、稳定性和福利效应4个维度22个指标的经济增长质量评价体系,运用因子分析法计算增长质量,采用三阶段最小二乘方法使用1999~2010年中国31个省份的面板数据,对保险业结构调整与经济增长质量提升的关系进行考察。实证结果表明:财寿险市场集中程度和竞争程度的提高都可以促进经济增长质量的提升,但保险业盲目反垄断会抑制经济增长质量的提升,同时经济增长质量的提高反过来也会加剧保险业的垄断程度。此外,研究结果还表明,保险深度和密度的提高可以促进经济增长质量的提高;保险业市场结构与各项经济结构变量对经济增长质量的协同效应各不相同。
Many studies find insurance industry development can promote economic growth,but few focus on quality of economic growth. This paper builds the index of quality of economic growth,which constitutes 22 basic indicators. Then we study the relation between insurance industry development and quality of economic growth. By using the panel data for 31 Chinese provinces during 1999 ~ 2010 with 3SLS method,the results show the degree of centralization and competition can increase quality of economic growth,the influence of insurance structure and economic structure to quality of economic growth has significant regional differences and industry differences.