Beihilfenrecht und Vergaberecht

Peter Friedrich Bultmann does a comparative study of the law of government subsidies and of the awarding of public contracts as instruments of economic control. The objective of his study is to optimize the law pertaining to governmental influence on the economy. The author begins with a legal and a factual analysis of the extent to which subsidies and public contracts can be used as instruments of economic control and the extent to which they are interchangeable in this function. In the second half of the study, he examines whether it is mainly subsidies or public contracts which should be used as a means of influencing the economy. The results of the comparison are then converted into suggestions for amendments to the budgetary law, the stability law and the law of administrative procedure.