摘要
传统公司法理论认为,公司资本的意义在于担保债权的清偿,从而为公司的对外交往提供信用基础。本文认为,从法律经济学的角度看,公司资本的意义在于节约股东和债权人之间的交易费用。资本在总资产中所占的比例越低,股东的违约意向就越强烈,因而双方之间的信息调查费用和合约监督费用也相应越高。而法律通过强制性地将公司资本维持在较高水平,可以达到有效控制和大量节约这些交易费用的目的。社会信用环境的不断改善,大幅降低了股东和债权人间的交易费用,而经济的快速发展则使严格资本管制对经济活力所造成的隐性交易费用急剧增加。这种重要而深刻的变化最终推动了2005年我国公司法向更自由化的资本制度的转变。
This essay provides a new explanation of corporate capital based on transactional cost theory. It claims that corporate capital is a device to reduce informational and credit contracts. Therefore, capital regulation that maintains monitoring costs between shareholders and creditors in considerable level of capital in corporate is introduced to reduce the transactional costs. China' s capital regulation was relaxed in 2005 as a result of decreasing transactional costs in credit contract in last decade.
出处
《北京大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》
CSSCI
北大核心
2008年第6期109-114,共6页
Journal of Peking University(Philosophy and Social Sciences)
关键词
公司资本制
交易费用
资本监管
制度变迁
Corporate capital
transactional cost
capital regulation
institutional change