以交易费用为视角考察国际机制的有效性

On the Validity of International Regimes From the Perspective of Transaction Costs

交易费用是新制度经济学的核心概念之一 ,这一概念可以运用于国际关系的研究中。国际合作中的交易费用是指国家在权利让渡时为了获取对方及环境的信息和防止对方的机会主义行为而付出的费用或成本。国际合作中交易费用主要来源于国家生存的国际社会大环境的不确定性和国家行为体在对外交往与合作中的机会主义行为。而国际机制创建以后 ,能够在降低信息费用、监督制裁费用 ,创造国际政治的规模效应上发挥重大作用 。

Transaction costs is one most pivotal concept of new institutional economics, which can be used to study the international relations. transaction costs mostly originates form the uncertainty of international community in which a state exists and opportunism behavior of a state interacting with another state. International regimes can play important roles in reducing information and intendance sanction costs, creating large-scale effect of international cooperation, and therefore show the validity of international regimes in international cooperation.