We investigate the causes of de-industrialization and potential for re-industrialization using trade-linked Input-Output data from WIOD. Introducing new measures of induced value added chains, we relate a sector's share in domestic final demand to that in production and separate the direct...

This article elaborates a dynamic rationale of industrial policy, focusing on how to strengthen the socio-economic system's ability to evolve, i.e. how to achieve high real income together with qualitative change. It highlights that the ubiquitous rationalities of failure, be it of markets,...

The ROBINSON and MARSHALL-LERNER conditions are necessary and sufficient for a devaluation to be successful end are therefore the backbone of the elasticities approach to the balance of payments. These conditions are generalized by taking into account some actual features of modern foreign...

We empirically investigate the importance of centrality (holding a central position in a spatial network) for strategic interaction in pricing for the Austrian retail gasoline market. Results from spatial autoregressive models suggest that the gasoline station located most closely to the market...

To address the relationship between innovation and competition we jointly estimate the opportunity, production, and impact functions of innovation in a simultaneous system. Based on Swiss micro-data, we apply a 3-SLS system estimation. The findings confirm a robust inverted-U relationship, in...

We ask how two reforms of migration law (EEA accession in 1994 and the integration agreement regulation in 2003) impacted on the education structure of migrants to Austria. To identify the effects of these reforms, we use the fact that EEA accession affected only migrants from EEA countries,...

I describe the extent and structure of cross-border commuting in the EU 27 to show that this is important only in a small number of border regions with strong linguistic, historic or institutional ties. Cross-border commuters are mostly medium skilled, male manufacturing workers, who have higher...

Cross-border commuters from EU 15 countries have lower over- but higher under-education rates than non-commuters, for cross-border commuters from the new 12 EU member countries the opposite applies. Within-country commuters have lower over- but higher under-education rates than non-commuters in...

Regulation of public procurement is seen inevitable in the context of the WTO international trade regime. Market-oriented reforms of public procurement in EU member states have also been viewed as important steps towards realizing a single market in Europe. Although in the EU some 16 percent of...

The study investigates the profitability of 1024 moving average and momentum models and their components in the yen/dollar market. It turns out that all models would have been profitable between 1976 and 1999. The pattern of profitability is as follows. The models produce more single losses than...