Accelerated economic growth, which is envisaged to ensue through integrating CEECs in the European Union, will give a boost to tourist traffic from the accession candidates. Additional passenger traffic will derive from the free movement of labour, which will in particular intensify commuter...

In a report completed in late 1997, the EU Commission found that the measures of the Transit Agreement were an effective means to reduce the environmental burden caused by truck transit through Austria. Yet in spite of the ceiling set on overall transit rates, truck traffic on the Brenner route...

On the basis of its model of energy demand and energy conversion in Austria (DAEDALUS III), WIFO simulated three scenarios to establish a long-term forecast of the development of energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The baseline scenario assumes a continuation of current developments, while the...

Cross-border purchases are a normal feature of market economies. The magnitude of these purchases depends on economic factors (such as price differentials), administrative factors (such as import quotas), and on a variety of other factors (such as geographic constellations). Within the EU the...

With the Austrian economy becoming more integrated into Eastern Central Europe, manufacturing steps are being shifted to Eastern Europe (outsourcing or "fragmentation"), following the intermediate step of lower costs payable for imported materials and services. Outsourcing impacts directly and...

WIFO continues, in the present paper, its report on key indicators of climate change and energy use in Austria with data for the year 2009. The indicators thus mirror the impact of the economic crisis 2008-09 on greenhouse gas emissions, and the use and consumption of energy. The...