交易费用计量研究述评

交易费用的计量是交易费用经济学从理论研究走向实证研究的关键。根据交易费用的不同定义,可以将交易费用分为宏观层面上的交易费用和微观层面上的交易费用,同时将微观层面上的交易费用分为市场型、管理型和政策型交易费用。在此基础上,对有关交易费用计量的文献进行了梳理分析。分析表明,尽管近年来在交易费用的计量方面已取得不少成就,但总的来说,方法还是比较单一,尤其对非市场交易费用和政策型交易费用的计量仍然停留在经验层次,缺少对企业内部交易费用的直接计量。

A Survey of Transaction Cost Measurement

Transaction cost measurement is the key for transaction-cost economics from theoretical research towards empirical research.According to the different definition of transaction cost,this paper divides the transaction cost into the macroscopic transaction cost and the microscopic transaction cost,simultaneously divides the microscopic transaction cost into the market transaction cost,the managerial transaction cost and the policy transaction cost.Based on this classification,this paper sums up the literatures related to transaction cost measurement.This paper indicates that,although many achievements in the transaction cost measurement aspect have obtained in recent years,generally speaking,the method is still single;especially the measurement on non-marketed transaction cost and the policy transaction cost is still on the experience level and the method of direct measurement on the enterprise interior transaction cost doesn't exist.