Managervergütung, Mindestlohn, Mietpreisbremse | Vergütungsregelungen als Steuerungsinstrumente in einer sozialen Marktwirtschaft

Manager Payments, Minimum Wage, "Mietpreisbremse". Compensation Regulations as Control Tools of a Social Market Economy.The freedom to negotiate the price of goods and services is of central importance in every market economy. Therefore, it is not surprising that the legislator is regularly causing intense debates and is facing accusations of unconstitutionality when restricting this freedom. However, these discussions are often limited to the respective regulatory area. This is one of the reasons why price regulations are widely considered a foreign object in market economies, which is empirically not accurate and falls short in normative terms. The legislator uses price regulations in all important economic areas, especially to tackle market failure and for the purpose of consumer protection. We bring these provisions together under the classification term “price regulations”, analyze them comparatively and describe the models, which can be used by the legislator. We test the potential of these models by the example of a minimum price for meat