2011 war das zweite Jahr der Erholung der Weltwirtschaft nach der Wirtschaftskrise, entspre-chend fiel das Wachstum deutlich niedriger aus als 2010. Es reduzierte sich auch im Jahres-verlauf drastisch, und die Gefahr einer neuerlichen Rezession war zur Jahreswende nicht aus-zuschließen....

2010 zeichnete sich eine leichte Erholung der weltweit getätigten Direktinvestitionen ab. Der Wert des Zustroms von passiven Direktinvestitionen nach Österreich – ein Großteil davon ging auf reinvestierte Gewinne zurück – lag mit 2,9 Mrd. € im Jahr 2010 jedoch unter dem Vorjahreswert....

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,...

Industrial policy is a controversial but necessary part of economic policy. In its early stages, it consisted mainly of sectoral interventions. It then evolved into a broader competitiveness policy driven by horizontal policies. Nowadays it is a mixture of mainly horizontal and of complementary...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the development of industrial policy in the European Union. The changing concepts and rationale for industrial policy are reported with reference to the treaties and communications of the European Commission. Industrial policy has followed the course of...

FIW publishes quarterly FIW Notes. They present an overview of the most important Austrian and international developments regarding international economics. There is only a German version available.

FIW publishes quarterly FIW Notes. They present an overview of the most important Austrian and international developments regarding international economics. There is only a German version available.

FIW publishes quarterly FIW Notes. They present an overview of the most important Austrian and international developments regarding international economics. There is only a German version available.