交易费用的含义及测度:研究综述和展望

The Concept of Transaction Costs and Its Measurement:Literatures Review and Prospect

交易费用是新制度经济学的核心所在与理论生长点,其准确测度是交易费用经济学走向实证研究的关键。本文在明晰交易费用概念的基础上,将已有交易费用测度研究分为宏观和微观两个层面。其中,宏观层面包括以诺斯为代表的直接测度和构建交易效率指标的间接测度;微观层次则包括比较不同国家中间商品交易的交换费用、测度政策诱致型交易费用等四个方面。通过对已有交易费用测度文献进行系统的梳理和总结,揭示了其研究现状与存在的问题,并为进一步的研究指明方向。

Transaction costs is the core and foundation of the New Institutional Economics.Its accurate measurement is the key of transaction cost economics moving toward the empirical studies.The measurement of transaction costs can be divided into macro and micro level,such as measuring transaction sectors and indirect measurement by the index of transaction efficiency.In this article,we clarify the concept of transaction costs,reveal the problems of the existing transaction costs studies and point out the direction for further research,based on systematically combing and summarizing the existing literature of transaction costs measurement.