交易费用的测度:理论的发展及应用

交易费用的测度是交易费用经济学从理论研究走向实证研究的重要环节,它对于比较制度分析和理解不同国家间经济绩效差异也有重要的意义.由于交易费用概念的多样性,在交易费用的测度方面仍然缺少统一的理论框架,不过近些年来宏观交易费用、微观交易费用的测度以及经验性研究都取得了重要的进展,并在应用经济学中得到广泛运用.本文对交易费用测度的理论发展和应用进行了系统的评介,并展望了未来的研究方向.

Measuring Transaction Costs:Theoretic Development and Application

Measurement of transaction costs is a key procedure to Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) transferring itself from theories to positive study.It plays an important role in comparative institutional analysis as well as under- standing the differences among different countries' economic performances.Due to diversity of concepts of transaction cost,there is still lack of a unified theoretic framework.However,the measurement in macro and micro transaction costs and empirical studies have been advanced and they have been applied in some applying economics.This article systematically reviews theoretic development and application of measuring transaction costs and forecasts relevant research fields in the future.