摘要
瓦利斯和诺思(1986)对美国交易费用总量的变动趋势进行了测算,得出了引人关注的结论。随后诺思和瓦利斯等人对这个测算结果进行了系统的解释,但是无论是这个测算结果本身还是他们所提出的观点都受到了不少学者的质疑。在把诺思和瓦利斯等新制度经济学家得出的实证结论、理论解释与新兴古典经济学理论模型的结论和思想观点进行比较的基础上,发现不仅瓦利斯和诺思(1986)的测算结果与新兴古典经济学模型对交易费用变化趋势的预测是吻合的,而且两位作者在解释这一测算结果成因时所提出的核心观点与新兴古典经济学模型背后的思想也是基本一致的。这些发现一方面支持了诺思和瓦利斯的观察结果和理论解释,同时也表明新兴古典经济学事实上为人们研究交易费用、经济增长和制度变迁三者关系提供了一个重要的形式化分析框架。相对于新制度经济学的非形式化分析范式,这个分析框架有助于消除人们在有关讨论中所出现的概念混淆和逻辑不严密等问题,更清晰地展现交易费用总量、产出水平和制度安排三者的互动关系,因而在制度经济学研究领域具有应用前景。
Wallis and North （1986） conducted a profound estimation on the changing tendency of the total transaction costs in USA, which drew an eye-catching conclusion. Then North and Wallis gave a systematic explanation of the results; however, whether the result itself or the viewpoint put forward by them are being questioned by many scholars. On the basis of a comparison between the empirical conclusions drawn and theoretical interpretations given by the neo-institutional economists such as North and Wallis with the conclusions and ideas of the theoretical model of new classical e- conomics, it is found that not only the estimated results of WaUis and North （1986） is consistent with the prediction of the changing tendency of transaction costs by the model of new classical eco- nomics, but also the core ideas raised by the two authors in explaining the causes of estimated result is basically consistent with the ideas behind the model of new classical economics. These findings on one hand can support the observations and theoretical explanations of North and Wallis; at the same time they also show that new classical economics has in fact provided an important formal analytical framework for people to study the relationship between transaction costs, economic growth and institu- tional changes. Compared with the informal analytical paradigm of neo-institutional economics, this analytical framework can help to eliminate such issues as conceptual confusion and logic imprecise in the related discussion, as well as show more clearly the interactive relationship between the total amount of transaction costs, the level of output and institutional arrangements, therefore, it has bright prospects of application in the research field of institutional economics.
出处
《当代财经》
CSSCI
北大核心
2013年第5期5-14,共10页
Contemporary Finance and Economics
关键词
交易费用
经济增长
制度改进
新兴古典经济学
分工
transaction costs
economic growth
system improvements
new classical economics
division
