中国电信市场改革效率之消费者福利分析

基于常弹性的Marshall需求函数,测算了中国电信市场改革的消费者福利变化。结果表明,自1998年以来,中国电信市场经历了一个持续的消费者福利增进过程,这昭示着中国电信市场的改革至少取得了效率上的成功。从细分市场来看,移动电话市场是提升中国电信市场消费者福利的第一来源,其次是增值电信市场,而固定电话市场在近几年中对中国电信市场消费者福利的贡献为负值。研究暗示,固定电话市场是中国电信市场今后改革的重点方向,也是中国电信市场效率继续提升的潜在源泉。

Consumers' Welfare and Market Efficiency: Perspectives to Institutional Reforms in Chinese Telecommunications Market

The consumers' surplus is calculated and analyzed for Chinese telecommunications market based on constant elasticity Marshallian demand functions.It is showed that there has been a durative increase in consumers' surplus in Chinese telecommunications market since 1998,which demonstrates a huge efficient success from the market reforms.The mobile telephone market is the first source of that consumers' surplus increase,and the second is the value-added telecommunications market,when the fixed telephone markets,by contraries,decrease the consumers' surplus in latest years.The results suggest that the direction of reforms in Chinese telecommunications market must be oriented onto the fixed telephone markets in order to step up the market efficiency ahead in the future.