交易成本、电子市场与公司内贸易

公司内贸易是随着跨国公司的发展而产生的,目前公司内贸易已经成为国际贸易的重要组成部分.越来越多的公司内贸易反映出公司具有回避外部国际市场的动机,国际市场的作用正在淡化.随着互联网的发展,一种新型的、依赖于互联网的、虚拟的国际电子市场出现了,这种电子市场大大降低了交易的成本.本文以交易成本理论为基础,简要综述了电子市场的理论研究成果,并在此基础上分析了国际电子市场对企业关于市场与"内部化"的选择和对公司内贸易的影响.

Transaction Cost, Electronic Markets and Intra-firm Trade

Intra-firm Trade which has been developed rapidly is an important part of International Trade now. More and more mount of Intra-firm Trade reflects that firm has the motive to avoid the external International Markets and at the same time the role of markets has been weak gradually. With the development of Internet, a new model of markets, which can be described as a virtual market on the Internet is created and it reduces the transaction cost greatly. In this article, the influence of International Electronic Market on how firms use market or intra-hierarchies and Intra-firm Trade are discussed on the base of Transaction Cost Theory and Electronic Market Theory.