交易费用对粮食经纪人经营特征的影响分析——基于河南、安徽的调研数据

Analysis of the Impact of Transaction Costs on the Business Characteristics of Grain Brokers——Based on Research Data from Henan and Anhui

粮食经纪人是衔接种粮农户、粮食收储企业和粮食加工企业的重要桥梁,但由于数据的缺失,从经济学角度对粮食经纪人的研究相对较少。本文基于交易费用理论,利用河南、安徽两个粮食主产省的309份调研数据,以Logit模型为基础,系统分析了交易费用对粮食经纪人经营特征的影响机理,实证分析了信息搜查成本、专用性资产对粮食经纪人经营特征的影响。研究显示:信息搜索费用越高,越有利于粮食经纪人发展;专用性资产规模越大,粮食经纪人规模经营特征越明显。

Grain brokers are an important bridge between grain farmers,grain collecting and storage enterpri-ses and grain processing enterprises,but due to the lack of data,relatively little research has been conducted on grain brokers from an economic perspective.Based on transaction cost theory,this paper uses 309 research data from two grain–producing provinces,Henan and Anhui,to systematically analyse the mechanism of transaction costs on the operating characteristics of grain brokers based on a logit model,and empirically analyses the impact of information search costs and dedicated assets on the operating characteristics of grain brokers.The study shows that the higher the information search cost,the more favourable the development of grain brokers;the larger the scale of specialized assets,the more obvious the scale operation characteristics of grain brokers.