Gross value added grew at a slow rate everywhere in Austria, due to the fact that exports, the traditional drivers of growth, failed as propellant. The brightening of national and international prospects in the second half of the year helped industrial regions, gaining them a slight growth edge...

While in the first half of 2008 economic conditions were still very favourable in Austria, an economic downturn set in midyear and gained strength towards the end of 2008. This peculiar growth pattern implies that economic indicators for the year 2008 do not fully reflect the extent of the...

In the period from the enlargement of the European Union to the current economic crisis the CENTROPE region was characterised by a consistently high growth and a clearly improving situation on the labour market. From the economic point of view, however, the region is still poorly integrated....

Die Produktivitätsentwicklung einer Volkswirtschaft hängt eng mit Erfahrung, Ausbildung und Gesundheit und somit mit dem Alter der Arbeitskräfte zusammen. Auch in Österreich gewinnt der demographische Wandel an Bedeutung; er verläuft regional unterschiedlich. Die Untersuchung für die...

After two years of highly dynamic growth in Austria, the global slowdown impacted in 2012 when Austria's economy managed just a relatively minor increase of its real GDP (+0.8 percent). With a few exceptions, all the economic sectors reported value-added growth rates lower than those of the...

Population ageing is gaining significance in the economic policy debate and economic growth literature. One aspect is the effect of demographic change on productivity growth since productivity is strongly related to experience, educational attainment, health – and therefore also age. In...

With demand for investment once again on the rise and foreign trade (in goods) briskly growing across much of 2011, the Länder with a large share of industrial production were favoured over those more focused on services. Upper Austria and Styria again vied for first place in economic growth,...

Austria was hit by a large-scale flood in 2002. The damage was estimated at € 2.9 billion and the EU Solidarity Fund classified the Austrian flood as a major event. It triggered a vast number of studies analysing the causes of the disaster, and efforts were made to evaluate the measures taken...

In January 2003, the EU Commission published details of the proposed reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. Core elements of this reform are the reduction of intervention prices (for grain and milk) and the decoupling of direct payments from production. Several countries (including Austria)...

With milestone agricultural policy parameters determined in the second half of 2005, it is possible to forecast the sector's development up to 2014-15. The steep decline in the production of key agricultural goods observed in Austria since 1995 should level off since prices are expected to...