The increasing importance of Eastern Europe for Austria's foreign trade has given a considerable boost to the growing level of internationalisation among Austrian businesses. Austria's export of goods has almost doubled over the past 15 years, and more than a third of this successful...

In 2003, Austria was finally able to close its FDI gap. A major contribution to catching up with the scope of active di-rect investment was provided by Austrian investments in the CEECs. Recently, interest has been tending to shift to-wards the more distant CEE countries. For several years now,...

In the past decade trade in manufactured goods has experienced a rise in developing economies. China especially has seen its world market share in the trade of complex industrial products rising dramatically, whereas those of some industrialised economies have fallen. In this product category...

In spring the European Commission published its first "Alert Mechanism Report" on macroeconomic imbalances in the European Union summarising ten indicators in a scoreboard. Austria exceeded the relevant thresholds in three cases: 1. Austria's export market share decreased by 14.8 percent during...

The countries of the Black Sea region, located at the strategic crossroads between Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East, are rapidly gaining in importance, considering their geographic proximity, rich mineral resources and potential as a sales market and labour pool. The article looks into...