This paper combines factor demand functions (for intermediate input and labour) and price equations (derived from a Generalized Leontief cost function) with the traditional input-output price model. The cost functions determine factor demands for materials and labour as well as output prices at...

This paper analyses the role of different components of technical change on energy intensity by applying a Translog variable cost function setting with (short- run) fixed capital to the new EU KLEMS dataset for five selected EU countries (Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, UK and Spain). The framework...

This paper deals with the issue of updating input-output (I-O) coefficients within a large-scale disaggregated econometric macro-model of the Austrian economy. Capturing the changes in input coefficients over time is an important issue in I-O modelling due to a lack of recent benchmark I-O...

International institutions concerned with the concepts of national accounts (the UN and the Statistical Office of the EU) as well as the statistical offices of many industrialized and developing countries have begun to construct a system of ecological national accounts. In general two main lines...

The economic analysis of sustainable consumption structures concentrates on the extent to which it is possible and recommendable to foster substitution of flows by stocks (improving the thermal quality of buildings, more energy-efficient transport systems). Also of relevance is the role that...

According to the latest WIFO business survey carried out in cooperation with the EU among 2,700 firms in the manufacturing sector, capital formation by the construction industries and public utilities makes a significant contribution to the recovery, even though it is less dynamic than in the...

Recently, several scientific investigations have been carried out in Austria on the potential of biomass as a renewable resource for the energy sector. Most of these studies look at this domestic biomass potential from a natural-science and technological perspective. In contrast to these, the...

Durch Simulationen mit dem Makromodell und dem Input-Output-Modell des WIFO wurden die Effekte eines EU-Beitritts für die Gesamtwirtschaft und für einzelne Sektoren ermittelt. Demnach wäre das reale Brutto-Inlandsprodukt bei einem EU-Beitritt im Jahr 2000 um 3% höher als bei einem Verbleib...