According to the results of WIFO's spring 2010 investment survey, investment in manufacturing expressed in current prices is expected to decrease by 11 percent in 2010. A detailed look at broad manufacturing industry groups shows that the decline will be most pronounced in motor vehicles,...

According to the results of WIFO's Autumn 2009 investment survey, investment in manufacturing at current prices decreased by 24.0 percent in 2009, the largest drop since WIFO began to collect investment data (in 1964). For 2010 the greatest decline is expected for automotive, capital and...

According to results from the recent WIFO investment survey, which samples some 800 firms of the manufacturing sector, the construction sector and the energy sector as well as public transport enterprises and public utilities, capital formation will be weak in 2002. Companies plan to invest €...

According to the results of the spring 2005 investment survey, investment in manufacturing as expressed in current prices increased by 8.2 percent in 2004. For 2005, investment is expected to stay at the same level as in 2004. A growth of investment for 2004 was reported by all industries except...

The Austrian manufacturing industry as well as construction, electricity, gas, water and public transport plan to invest € 10.6 billion at current prices in 2004. Total investment is expected to increase slightly by 5.8 percent compared to 2003, after a two-year decrease. In the autumn survey...

According to the recent WIFO forecast, economic growth in Austria is set to decelerate from 3.3 percent in 2000 to 1.7 percent in 2001. The slowdown is mainly due to a weaker European environment which itself is the consequence of slower growth in the USA and of higher energy costs. These...

According to the results of the spring 2004 investment survey, investment in manufacturing expressed in current prices was set to grow by 6.6 percent in 2004. In the autumn 2003 investment survey, enterprises had expected their investments in 2004 to stay at the same level as in 2003. Seen...

According to the results of the WIFO Spring 2008 Investment Survey, investment in manufacturing (including mining, NACE 10 to 14 and 23) at current prices is expected to increase by 8.2 percent in 2008. The overall expansion can be mainly attributed to the manufacturers of investment goods and...

In Austrian manufacturing, large companies can utilise their capacities better than small companies. In order to check if this conclusion from the WIFO Business Survey has its counterpart in real economic developments, we examined data from business cycle statistics and found a tendency for...