This discussion paper deals with the reconstruction of transportation and telecommunication infrastructures in Eastern Germany and especially Saxony after the 1990 unification.

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.

Since the early 1990s, the Korean economy has undergone a transition from the state-led toward the market-led development. Structural reforms were required to make the transition smooth and successful. The government has, however, failed to accomplish much, due partly to the policy-makers’...

Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) is the computational study of economic processesmodeled as dynamic systems of interacting agents. This essay discusses the potentialuse of ACE modeling tools for the study of macroeconomic systems. Points are illustratedusing an ACE model of a two-sector...

This study explores the use of the agent based computational economics (ACE) technique to address the question of how a Treasury should auction its securities. In particular, this study explores whether a Treasury should use a discriminatory-price rule. Buyers are modeled as profit seekers that...

This paper takes a discrete-time adaptation of the continuous−time matching economy described in Pissarides (1990, 2000), and computes the solution to the dynamic planning problem. The solution is shown to be completely characterized by a first−order, non−linear map. We show that the map...