Differences between economic sectors in the current trade regime and in terms of competitiveness should lead to markedly divergent effects that EU enlargement will have on the Austrian secondary and tertiary sectors. In both of these sectors, industries prevail that have positive or at least...

The effect of eastern enlargement will vary greatly between sectors of the Austrian economy, not least due to the current framework of trade policies. Trading with industrial products simply continues or completes the progress made by the process of liberalisation. Trends visible since the...