信息不对称下的技术贸易:理论分析和经验检验

迄今发展中国家未能有效地利用国际技术贸易从发达国家获得自己想要的技术。原因在于,由于要素禀赋的不一致,发达国家企业具有策略性传递技术质量信息以获取卖者剩余的倾向;发展中国家的企业则对发达国家企业传递的信息持不信任态度。筛选机制使得我国的技术贸易参与者集中在外资企业、资本密集型的行业和发达地区。我国技术贸易的这种格局在短期内无法有大的改变。

Technology Trade under Asymmetric Information: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Examination

Technology progress is crucial to economic growth, whereas China didn’t utilized international technology trade as possible as it could to get most-wanted technology till now. The reason is that, owing to the difference in factor endowment, firms in developed countries tends to strategically transmit inaccurate information to firms in developing country in the information-attaining stage which precedes trade negotiation. Knowing this tendency, firms in China distrust the information provided by developed countries’ firms. This leads technology buyers in China to concentrate in developed regions and in capital intensive industries. By searching for more providers of technology, reducing the number of the quality states of technology and by referring to some yardsticks of price, the inefficiency of technology trade that arises from strategic information transmission can be mitigated.