The paper examines the question of the emergence of multinational firms from Eastern Europe in Austria on different levels of aggregation: The first part uses aggregated data on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in Austria from Central- and East European Countries (CEECs).(...)

Die vorliegende Publikation ist eine Studie über die Arbeitsbedingungen in der österreichischen Gastronomiebranche (Restaurants und Hotels). Vorgestellt werden ihre Hauptmerkmale, der rechtliche Rahmen bzw. arbeitsmarktliche Regulation, die Arbeitsbedingungen, der Zugang der Arbeitnehmer zur...

Gemäß § 82 Abs. 1 Z 2 VAG setzt die Benennung als Abschlussprüfer bei Versicherungsunternehmen voraus, dass die Haftung des Abschlussprüfers angemessen durch einen Versicherungsvertrag gedeckt ist ...

This paper presents a framework for analysing the effects of economicdevelopment in Eastern Europe on Austria's regions. Therefore we concentrate on the effects of enhanced East-West trade, which results from the economic development in the transition countries.

The consensus about the ability of the standard open-economy neoclassical growthmodel to account for interest-rate driven business cycles has changed over time:whereas early research concluded that business cycles are neutral to interest-rateshocks, more recent investigations suggest that these...

What determines the firm's choice of its mechanism of investment financing? How is the choice of the firm's financing mechanism at the micro level related to the economy's business cycle movements at the aggregate level? This paper develops a model of the credit market where the equilibrium...

This paper presents the proposed trend development of new technologies and organisationalconcepts in the logistics services sector. A structure for classifying such trendsis proposed in order to provide overall understanding of basic developments in logistics.From this industry specific outlook...

Will outsourcing be a winner or loser from the global crisis? This sector has been a major beneficiary of the boom in business services trade since the mid-1990s, coinciding with the rise of emerging market economies. This growth survived – indeed was arguably a beneficiary of – the last...

The Great War of 1914-18 constituted a major rupture for the economies of Europe in several respects. It marked the end of almost a century of uninterrupted economic growth. It ended a long period of near-universal currency stability, and set in motion a painful process of de-globalisation. It...