각국의 문화 차이와 카르텔 정책의 상호관계 - 비교경제법에 있어서 비교문화심리학의 응용 가능성

초록

The national culture, which could be compared to the mental program for a nation’s citizens, exerts perpetual influences upon the nation’s competition policy. This article tries to test this hypothesis by applying the CVD framework of cross cultural psychology, which enables us to compare national cultures on statistical basis and on global scale. Quoting the OECD data on cartel policies, this article demonstrates the correlation between nations’ CVD index scores and the strictness of their cartel policies: the index of Uncertainty Avoidance shows negative correlation with the strictness of cartel policies, while the index of Individualism/Collectivism positive correlation; and a certain type of combination of high's and low’s in CVD index scores, which could be found in English speaking countries, has something to do with the strictness of cartel policies. This article goes on to suggest that an insight into the correlation between nations’ CVD index scores and their competition policies enables us to align competition policies with nations’ cultures for better performance of the former. And it also suggests that the CVD framework could help us to promote competition culture and coordinate the competition policies of nations.