试论新制度经济学的主要理论贡献

The Main Theoretical Contributions of the New Institutional Economics

本文先简要介绍了新制度经济学产生的背景以及发展的现状,然后从三个方面论述了新制度经济学的主要理论贡献:新制度经济学的制度分析围绕"交易费用"这一核心概念而展开;新制度经济学把制度作为内生变量来研究,批判地继承新古典经济学;新制度经济学的研究方法从现实的制度分析入手,基于现实的实证研究使得人们的视野转向实验经济学。最后列举了一些制度分析可以应用的领域。

This paper first introduces briefly the background and the status quo of the New Institutional Economics and then expounds the main theoretical contributions from three perspectives： the institutional analysis of the New Institutional Economics centers on the core concept of ＂Transaction Cost＂; the New Institutional Economics regards institutions as an endogenous variable and makes a study of it, inheriting the Neoclassical Economics critically; the research method of the New Institutional Economics begins with the analysis of the real-life institutions, and the exemplificative research that is based on reality draws people＇s attention to the Experimental Economics. This paper ends with the enumeration of the fields that the institutional analysis can be applied to.