This report provides the first results of the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for Austria. The HFCS covers households’ real assets, financial assets and debt, thereby for the first time allowing an analysis of Austrian households’ net wealth. The rich data on which...

This study analyzes the results of the OeNB’s methods-of-payment survey of fall 2011 and compares them with the results of similar surveys from the years 1996, 2000 and 2005. The rapid development of cashless payment options in the 15 years that have passed between the first and last analyzed...

Economic Policy under Uncertainty maintains that the question of truth and accountability has not received particular attention in the literature on economic methodology. It goes on to argue that pragmatic theories relate concepts of truth to the beliefs, thoughts and intentional actions of...

Dass Krisen unserem Wirtschaftssystem immanent sind, hat ihre aktuellste Ausprägung eindrucksvoll in Erinnerung gerufen. Weil Finanzkrisen häufiger und intensiver geworden sind, müssen nun möglichst rasch umfassende Maßnahmen zur Beseitigung der tieferen Ursachen der Krise getroffen werden....

Combining both academic and practitioner perspectives, this book provides authoritative insights into the integration of European labour markets against the background of increasing international labour mobility.

This book focuses on recent financial market reforms, and their implications for social, economic and political exclusion. In particular it considers the hitherto under-researched question of whose interests govern the design of regulatory mechanisms and who influences the decision-making...

This book highlights the achievements and challenges of the ongoing process of financial integration in Europe. This unique collection will be of great interest to economists and experts in the fields of financial markets and European integration from central, commercial and investment banks,...