[摘要]巨灾债券的出现已有约20年的历史,其在规模上不断扩大,品种上不断丰富,已成为保险公司进行巨灾风险管理的有益补充。巨灾债券相对于传统再保险,具有一些源自制度设计的内生优势,如成本相对低廉,没有违约风险,信息不对称现象被最大限度降低,提高保险公司的偿付能力和市场的效率。从巨灾债券的比较优势、国际发展状况、市场原理和主要种类等方面可以对巨灾债券的发展及运行原理进行比较全面的分析。 [关键词]巨灾债券;风险证券化;内生优势;违约风险 [中图分类号] F840.64 [文献标识码] A [文章编号]1004-3306(2005)09-0012-03 Abstract: It has been about twenty years since the catastrophe bonds were born.Nowadays the market scale of catastrophe bonds is going up rapidly, and many kinds of catastrophe bonds are exchanging in the capital markets everyday. The catastrophe bonds have now been the beneficial complementarity of catastrophe management.Compared to reinsurance,the catastrophe bonds have some endogenous advantages which come form system design, such as low cost, none default risk, low information asymmetry, improving insurance company’s liquidation ability and the efficiency of market. This paper analyses the catastrophe bonds based on the price theory, market structure of exchange, necessary conditions of successful issue, kinds of catastrophe bonds and so on. Key Words: catastrophe bonds;risk securitization;endogenous advantage;default risk