The study evaluates the efficiency of government intervention using a vertical structured model including imperfectly competitive agricultural input markets, the bread grain market, and the imperfectly competitive food industry. To test for policy efficiency the actually observed bread grain...

This paper aims to complement work done within the WIOD project (the 'World Input Output Database' project financed by the EU's Seventh Framework Programme), which compiled supply and use tables for 40 countries, covering about 85% of the world economy. The paper describes the derivation of...

The recent macroeconomic literature dealing with fiscal policy multipliers is dominated by applications of aggregate DSGE (Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium) models, whereas multi-sectoral models (econometric input-output or CGE) are absent. This paper contributes to the debate from a...

Für Österreich als kleine, offene Volkswirtschaft sind Exporte eine entscheidende Komponente der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Nachfrage. Die zunehmende internationale Arbeitsteilung führt jedoch nicht nur zu einem steigenden Exportvolumen, sondern auch zu einer Fragmentierung der Produktion, die...

Die heimische und internationale Nachfrage nach in Österreich produzierten Sachgütern trägt mit 21,8% der gesamten Bruttowertschöpfung wesentlich zur gesamtwirtschaftlichen Leistung bei, auch wenn sich durch die zunehmende Bedeutung internationaler Produktionsnetzwerke die...

Agri-environmental programs are part of the green box of the GATT Uruguay Round and are supposed to "have no, or at most minimal trade distorting effects or effects on production." In addition, "the amount of payment shall be limited to the extra costs or loss of income involved in complying...

Regional development in Austria has long been characterized by an east-south-west divide with eastern and southern states trailing western states in terms of value added and employment growth. In the 1990's, however, growth in value added was higher in the south and east and in terms of...

The aim of this paper is to compare a social welfare (SW) indicator for sustainability with the ecological footprint (EF) indicator for measuring spatial sustainability. The framework applied follows the line of a core-periphery model of "new economic geography" as put forward in Grazi, van den...