Austria's EU accession 25 years ago, alongside Finland and Sweden, was preceded by an extended period of convergence toward the EU: via the free trade agreement concluded with the EC in 1973, and the participation in the European Economic Area (EEA) in 1994. Although the COVID-19 crisis in 2020...

Die wirtschaftlichen Zusammenhänge rund um das Entstehen des europäischen Währungssystems bilden den Hintergrund für eine Untersuchung der Parallelen und Unterschiede in der Währungspolitik Deutschlands und Österreichs. Dabei wird auf die Hauptlinien des Ringens um die währungspolitische...

Ten years ago, the global financial crisis started to unwind in the USA and triggered the greatest recession since World War II. Although the crisis of 2007-08 was caused in the USA, their economy was not hit so hard in the Great Recession of 2009 as in Europe, and in particular in the Euro...