In this paper, we propose a new methodology for decomposing consumer price inflation into contributions of cost components using national accounts data. It builds on the well-known decomposition method for the value-added deflator and expands it by combining the cost structure of the consumption...

This paper presents a framework for analysing the effects of economic development 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 analytical framework we use...

In this paper we present an analysis of the impact of the great recession of the years 2008 and 2009 on the Austrian economy. For this purpose, we utilize the new estimated DSGE model of the OeNB for the Austrian economy within the Euro area. This model is a small open-economy version of Smets &...