Regulating Competition during the Economic Miracle. The Practice of Cartel Law in the Federal Republic of Germany before the Law against Restraints of Competition, 1948/49-1958

经济奇迹期间规范竞争。

• 批准号: 388105383
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Sebastian Teupe
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: ZR VII: Lehrstuhl für BR und Rechtsgeschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/388105383?language=en
• 关键词: Regulating; Competition; during; Economic; Miracle.

The research project seeks to investigate the practice of cartel law at the time of the German "economic miracle" to evaluate the interconnection of legal rules and business practices in light of the caesura in competition law after the end of the Second World War. The entrepreneurial scope of German firms has been analyzed historically almost exclusively with regards to the German Law against Restraints of Competition (GWB) which was passed only in 1957. The practice of cartel law in post-war Germany that was determined by occupation law and the rulings of German courts has escaped attention. The project intends to close this research gap by pursuing three targets.First, the project will provide an empirical contribution regarding the historical interconnection of law and the economy. The caesura in competition law enforced by the Allies met resistance not only in public protests of German firms but in their everyday practices as well. These legal conflicts forced the courts to interpret the allied statutory provisions thereby determining their legal content. The project will clarify to what extent German firms succeeded in inducing the courts to take into account their arguments, practices, and traditions.Second, the project opens the possibility of identifying progressive and conservative forces inside the German judiciary during the turn towards a liberal market economy. The courts' acceptance of competition policy principles was a fundamental condition for this turn and had become well established by the 1960s. It is an open question, however, whether some courts played a pioneering role in establishing the new cartel law already during the early 1950s. The project will answer the question if and if so which courts employed elements of the GWB before it became the official law. Third, the project will offer a new explanatory approach for the much-debated question which factors determined the concrete form of the GWB. Historical research has focused on U.S. American influence, the role of economic ideas, and the pressure of German firms. The project extends the scope of possible explanations by taking up the question whether the GWB of 1957 actually marked a decisive break or whether it simply sanctioned a cartel law practice that had become well established by that time. To answer the three questions the project will collect and systematize court decisions and sources from business archives to analyze their mutual interrelations. The results will be secured and made public in the form of a journal article, a special issue, a database, two workshops, and a dissertation related to the research project.

该研究项目旨在调查德国经济奇迹时期的卡特尔法律实践，以评估法律规则与商业实践之间的相互联系，以参考第二次世界大战结束后竞争法中的卡特尔法。德国公司的创业范围在历史上几乎只根据1957年才通过的《德国禁止限制竞争法》(GWB)进行分析。战后德国的卡特尔法律实践是由占领法和德国法院的裁决决定的，但没有引起人们的注意。该项目旨在通过追求三个目标来弥合这一研究差距。首先，该项目将为法律与经济的历史相互联系提供经验贡献。盟国执行的竞争法中的Cesura不仅在对德国公司的公开抗议中遇到了阻力，而且在他们的日常实践中也遇到了阻力。这些法律冲突迫使法院解释相关的法律规定，从而确定其法律内容。该项目将阐明德国公司在多大程度上成功地说服法院考虑他们的论点、做法和传统。第二，该项目开启了在转向自由市场经济的过程中识别德国司法机构内进步和保守力量的可能性。法院接受竞争政策原则是这一转变的基本条件，到1960年代已经确立。然而，一些法院是否在20世纪50年代初就已经在制定新的卡特尔法律方面发挥了先锋作用，这是一个悬而未决的问题。该项目将回答这样一个问题，如果是这样的话，哪些法院在GWB成为正式法律之前使用了它的要素。第三，该项目将为决定GWB具体形式的因素提供一种新的解释方法。历史研究的重点是美国的影响、经济思想的作用和德国公司的压力。该项目扩大了可能解释的范围，讨论了1957年全球生物圈公约是否实际上标志着决定性的决裂，或者它是否仅仅认可了当时已经确立的卡特尔法律实践。为了回答这三个问题，该项目将收集和系统化法院判决和商业档案来源，以分析它们之间的相互关系。研究结果将以期刊文章、特刊、数据库、两个研讨会和与研究项目有关的论文的形式公布。