Real GDP in Austria expanded by 0.2 percent in the first quarter of 2014 compared with the previous quarter. The upturn did not accelerate further, but it did strengthen. Economic growth, which is buttressed by broad-based demand, is increasingly receiving stimulus from abroad. Global economic...

Short-term prospects for the Austrian economy have little changed since the last revision of the WIFO forecast three months ago. Output in the first quarter 2014 grew as expected, albeit somewhat less than in the fourth quarter 2013. Latest leading indicators have been slightly less strong than...

Austria's real GDP contracted by 0.1 percent in the third quarter compared with the previous quarter. As a result of this development and consistent with the dismal picture painted by the leading indicators for the fourth quarter of 2014, a technical recession lies within the realms of...