The research paper provides important findings about the development, difficulties and perception of the support measures for exporters introduced by the Austrian government in times of COVID-19 crisis. Based on a literature review using secondary data, eight qualitative interviews were...

Based on a panel data set for 38 European countries over the period 1995-2014 and by using the definition of "foundational competitiveness", which we operationalise as GDP per working-age individual at PPP, this paper analyses how much trading partners matter for the national competitiveness of...