The Research On Anti-corruption Issue From Neo-institutional Economics Perspective

The problem of corruption in our country has become a hot social issue of common concern. At present, the analysis of corruption from Neo-institutional Economics view is still in its infancy. On the basis of brief introduction of domestic and foreign theories on the research of corruption problem in economics view, this article made a basic judgment on China's corruption problems, summed up the basic characteristics of China's corruption problems, analyzed the trend and mainstream of China's anti-corruption construction.The causes of corruption in China were analyzed from the Neo-Institutional Economics perspective in this thesis. Incentive mechanism defects, abnormal development of the opportunism, softening of constraint institution, inefficient enforcement were the main causes of corruption from formal institutional view. Meanwhile, the traditions of official priority, the traditions of focusing on moral enlightenment and neglecting constraint institutions, the traditions of prevailing relationships network and emphasizing moral relationships were non-institutional factors leading to corruption from informal institutional view. At the same time, people's various thoughts towards materials and the changing living environment of government officials also had significant impacts on officials'acts.In accordance with the Neo-Institutional Economics , combined with China's anti-corruption practices, this thesis tried to set up three models:'institution - corruption acts'model,'clean profits– corruption profits'utility maximization model and the anti-corruption institution's effectiveness model. In the light of behavioral science and Neo-Institutional Economics theory, in'institution analysis and behavior analysis'way,'institution - corruption acts'model deduced that institution construction were intrinsically related to the occurrence and rate of corruption. China's high rate of corruption was mainly due to the deficiencies of institution constraint and the lack of motivations.'Clean profits– corruption profits'utility maximization model tried to explore affecting way and extent of institutions which were against corruption acts. The model deduced that the formal institution mainly effected the officials'expecting corruption profits by influencing the probability of corruption being found and the degree of punishment, thereby changing the slope of the budget line(as corruption and clean for the variables) to get the utility maximization point. In traditional culture and thinking style meanings, the informal institutions influenced the public officials'convictions and belief so as to change the marginal rate of substitution (MRS) of the clean profits and corruption profits. The anti-corruption institution's effectiveness model analyzed that the effectiveness of institution depended on the following six factors: institution decision, institution entities, institution implementation, institution's assessment and feedback, the degree of matching or complementary among institutions, and the institution implementation environment.At the end of this thesis, it is suggested that we should let China's Non- Governmental Organizations play a better role in the separation and balance of power as well as power supervisory, deepen reforms in economic, political, legal and other fields, promote the mechanisms innovation of government incentives, punishment, constraint and implement, increase the building of anti-corruption institution to reduce corrupt happening source, explore the implementation of'clean island'mode, learning from Hong Kong and Singapore experiences and strengthening international cooperation.