Between 1990 and 2004, the average annual growth of total real value added amounted to about 2.38 percent, with +1.33 percentage points contributed by capital output growth, +0.46 percentage point by labour output growth, and +0.85 percentage point by multi-factor productivity growth (as well as...

WIFO has been conducting its Business Cycle Survey since 1954. Today, some 1,600 businesses, with altogether more than 200,000 employees, are participating in the survey. The findings of the survey are analysed to obtain leading indicators of the state of the Austrian economy. The analysis shows...

Austria's GDP grew by just 0.3 percent in 2014, making for a sluggish economy for the third year in a row. Causes for the sluggishness were not just continued investment reticence on the part of businesses and muted expenditure on the part of private households but also the lack of any strong...

The WIFO Business Cycle Survey serves as an important early-indication tool for the economic situation in Austria. Using a Markov regime-switching model, it is possible to determine at an early point in time whether the business cycle is in its upward or downward mode. Regime probabilities are...

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...

In 2013, the cash-flow-to-sales ratio of the Austrian manufacturing sector reached an estimated 9.0 percent, a value significantly below the long-run average of 9.6 percent. The persistently muted performance of the manufacturing sector has affected the cash-flow-to-sales ratio, which declined...

Hampered by the slow economy, sagging growth in workers' productivity caused a rise in unit labour costs in 2013 by some 2.1 percent over the previous year. Combined with an unfavourable exchange rate (+1.8 percent), this affected the unit labour cost position for Austrian goods producers...

Die Finanzierung durch Banken ist insbesondere für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen wegen ihres stark eingeschränkten Zugangs zum Kapitalmarkt von herausragender Bedeutung. Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen bieten aber oft nur sehr eingeschränkt die mit den verschärften...

This study based on three different datasets shows that entry and exit dynamics have been increasing over the last decades. Start-ups are of much greater importance for the Austrian economy than they were 20 years ago. Although a final international comparison of start-up figures is not possible...

In 2009 the cash flow to sales ratio in the Austrian manufacturing sector is expected to have declined significantly. Already 2008 was marked by a modest drop to 11.2 percent. For 2009 econometric estimates based on a panel of NACE 2-digit industry data indicate a cash flow to sales ratio of...