Foreign trade and foreign direct investments (FDI) are key elements for economic development and growth of both a country and its regions. This paper focuses on foreign trade and FDI in Austrian regions (Bundesländer). Unfortunately, data on regional trade in Austria is only available on a very...

This policy brief introduces a method to estimate foreign trade of the nine Austrian NUTS-2 regions. The basic idea of the method is to disaggregate national foreign trade data to the regional level using national input-output, regional employment and other supplemental data. This allows for the...

The last decade of the past century has been dominated by growing decentralization in Russia, both in economic and political terms. The major factors driving decentralization were the weakness of the federal government and of President Yeltsin, as well as the poor performance of the federal...

Romanian SMEs can directly benefit from the Sectoral Operational Programme 'Increase of Economic Competitiveness' (SOP IEC) and some parts of the Regional Operational Programme (ROP) in the period 2007 2013. Research commissioned by the Directorate General for Regional Policy of the European...

Die Corona-Pandemie 2020 dominiert überwiegend die öffentliche Diskussion hinsichtlich ihrer wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen. Nicht vergessen werden sollte dabei allerdings, dass auch auf die Themen demografischer Wandel, Zukunft der Globalisierung, Nachhaltigkeit und...

Die Bedeutung des Themas Kreislaufwirtschaft ist zuletzt spürbar gestiegen. Ursache hierfür sind unter anderem neue Regulierungen der EU, die auf diese Weise ihre Abhängigkeit von Ressourcenimporten reduzieren und die eigenen Nachhaltigkeitsziele erfüllen will. Besonders städtische Räume...

Ukraine is a big country with a developed multimodal transport infrastructure that includes a network of roads, railways, airports and seaports, as well as pipelines. In addition, the country has significant infrastructure for electricity generation and distribution, and for gas transportation....