网络产业组织理论的历史、发展和局限

自上个世纪80年代以来,网络产业的研究一直沿用着新古典经济学的理性经济人假定,普遍采用博弈论的方法,并依照产品的特征分别侧重对直接网络外部性与间接网络外部性的讨论。经典模型的研究发现,网络外部性的存在会影响消费者对网络的选择,以及企业的技术选择和兼容决策,进而影响社会福利,有可能出现并非最优的均衡。早期的拓展模型传承着经典模型的最基本的假定与函数形式,进一步考虑各种竞争状况。近十年,从双边市场的角度研究具有网络外部性的产业成为网络产业组织理论分析的热点。本文梳理了传统的网络产业组织理论及在此基础上的各种拓展与最近的进展,不仅对研究的内容进行了归纳,更重要的是对研究的思路与模型拓展的方式进行了总结。

History,Development and Limitations of the Network Theory of Industrial Organization

Since the 1980s,research about the network industry has always been on the neo-classical economics of rational economic man assumptions.The general method is game theory.There are two direction of the research in accordance with the characteristics of the respective products,the direct and indirect network effects.The classical models found that the network externalities indeed affect consumers'decision of joining which network,the firms'decision of compatibility and the social welfare.In the last decade,th...