Bond yield and retail interest rate spreads are presumed to lead real activity on the basis of financial accelerator mechanisms, markup cyclicality or simply because they are forward-looking. Empirical results for Austria show that retail rate spreads outperform many other indicators in this...

Using a broad media database, the informational environment surrounding the technology market highs is analyzed for a trigger event that could have caused the quot;Internet bubblequot; to burst. Two major informational events are identified as triggers for the sudden change in market sentiment:...

Purpose –The purpose of this paper s to study the financing behavior of family firms (FF), as these differ from their small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) counterparts in their capital structure decision, mainly due to an increased risk aversion and the desire to maintain control over the...

B<sc>urgstaller</sc> J. Bank office outreach, structure and performance in regional banking markets, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper studies bank penetration, market structure and banking conduct across Austrian districts. Neither differences in market concentration nor in the activity of out-of-market...