"Beyond GDP" is a research agenda that has been evolving in recent years to overcome limitations of the concept of the gross domestic product. Some of the indicators covered by this theme have been neglected for some time and others have been recently developed. The overarching theme is the...

In 2013, Austria's economy grew by just 0.4 percent, the slowest growth rate since the recession of 2008-09 when overall production had shrunk by 3.8 percent. Both the investment volume and private household consumption declined in real terms. Unemployment rose sharply to a new height of 7.6...