以下是引用bajjio在2005-12-19 20:43:00的发言:
无论劳动市场上的工资还是产品市场上的商品价格都具有充分的灵活性,可以根据供求情况迅速进行调整,以达到供求相等均衡状态。有了这种灵活性,产品市场和劳动市场都不存在超额供给,每个市场都处于或趋于供求相抵的情况。
Wikipedia上的解释: In economics, market clearing refers to either
- a simplifying assumption made by the new classical school that markets always go to where the quantity supplied equals the quantity demanded; or
- the process of getting there via price adjustment.
The core idea is that the market will eventually be cleared of all surpluses and shortages (excess supply and demand). The first version assumes that this process occurs instantaneously.
简译下
在经济学中,市场清出是指
1)新古典主义学派的一个简化假设:市场总是趋向达到供给量等于需求量的状态;或,
2)达到上述状态的价格调整过程。
其核心思想是,市场上所有(超出供给和需求的)过剩和不足 最终都将被清除。最初的理论则假设该过程是在瞬时发生的。
后面还有一段说,
In the short run (and possibly in the long run), markets may find a temporary equilibrium at a price and quantity that does not correspond with the long term market clearing equilibrium. For example, in the theory of "efficiency wages," a labor market can be in equilibrium above the market-clearing wage, since each employer has the incentive to pay wages above market-clearing to motivate their employees on the job. In this case, equilibrium wages (where there is no endogenous tendency for wages to change) would not be the same as market-clearing wages (where there is no classical unemployment).
从短期来看(或许也可以从长期看),市场可能在某个价格和数量水平上搜寻到暂时的均衡点,但该价格和数量水平和长期上市场清出时的均衡并不相同。
比如,在“效率工资”理论中,由于每个雇主都企图支付高于劳动力市场清出时的工资来激励雇员工作,劳动力市场就可以在市场清出条件下取得的工资水平之上达到均衡。该例中,均衡工资(此时不存在工资变化的内生趋势)将不等于市场清出条件下的工资(此时不存在失业)。
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_clearing
1,若单就主贴的问题而言,是否可以这样说:
如果认为 market clearing 是状态,则指 该市场上 供给量=需求量 的时刻(其数学表达如jerryren网友给出);
如果认为 它 是过程,则指 该市场从供需量不等达到供需量相等的过程(如,2楼bajjio版主和wikipedia的解释)。
2,“市场清出”和“均衡”的关系
参考sungmoo版主的说明和wikipedia的例子,是否可以这样理解:
市场清出不是市场均衡(无论是一般均衡还是局部均衡)的必要条件。