Presentations at wiiw Spring Seminar 2003 Transition Countries Overview and Outlook (Leon Podkaminer) Fiscal and Financial Aspects of EU Enlargement the Issue of Transfers (Sándor Richter) Fiscal Implications of EU Enlargement for the CEECs (Roman Römisch) Lessons to be Learnt from Earlier...

Thirty years of The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (by Kazimierz Laski) The reform agenda and the Washington Consensus (by John Williamson) 'Last-minute' warnings from Brussels to the acceding countries (by Sándor Richter) Slovenia's accession to the EU fiscal implications...

wiiw Managing Director retires (by Kazimierz Laski, pp. 1-2) Countries covered non specific Topics Other Further expanding agro-food trade of the NMS-4 in Europe (by Zdenek Lukas and Jan Mládek, pp. 3-7) Countries covered Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia Topics Agriculture and Food...

The Central, East and Southeast European (CESEE) economies will experience on average a minor rebound of economic growth to 1% in 2010 which will speed up to 2.5% in 2011 and 3.5% in 2012. GDP growth will be higher in the CIS countries and in Turkey, about average in the Central European NMS and...

Serbia after Djindjic (by Vladimir Gligorov) Countries covered Serbia EU enlargement assessing the impact of transfers (by Sándor Richter) EU membership and income level convergence the experience of the Cohesion Countries (by Kazimierz Laski and Roman Römisch) Selected monthly data on the...

Slovakia after the elections (by Doris Hanzl-Weiss; pp. 1-3) Keywords Elections, Fiscal policy Countries covered Slovakia Topics Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Labour market issues in Europe’s Eastern and Western Balkan neighbours (by Hermine Vidovic; pp. 4-9) Keywords Labour market,...

New EU Member States booming agro-food trade, Poland ahead (by Zdenek Lukas) Countries covered Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia Topics Agriculture and Food Industry Unit labour costs as a measure of countries¿ competitiveness (by Kazimierz Laski and Roman Römisch) Countries covered...

Austria's economic relations with Russia (by V. Astrov; pp. 1-5) Keywords economic cooperation, neighbourhood policy Countries covered Austria, Russia Topics International Trade and Competitiveness; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Integration The structure of jobs across the EU some...

Kazakhstan an economic assessment (by V. Astrov, pp. 1-4) Countries covered Kazakhstan Topics Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecasts The twin deficits myth and real problems (by K. Laski and R. Römisch, pp. 5-8) Countries covered non-specific Topics Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecasts Global...

Abstract Keynes and Kalecki both assume that private investment determines (but is not determined by) private savings. For Keynes, the desired level of saving is an increasing function of GDP, somehow related to the psychology of the society; ‘autonomous’ shifts of investment are determined...