Austrian exports continue to be focused on Western Europe, in spite of brisk expansion rates achieved for Central and Eastern European markets. In order to better exploit opportunities offered to Austrian exporters, it would therefore be desirable to aim at diversifying exports by expanding into...

Relations between the EU accession countries and Austria operate on three levels: the newcomers to the EU are competitors, they offer a market of new and growing opportunities, and they are low-cost partners in any vertical division of labour scheme. So far, Austrian exporters have done well in...

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 investment survey conducted in October-December 2002, fixed capital investment in manufacturing decreased by 9.6 percent in 2002 over the previous year and is expected to grow by 5.7 percent in 2003 (both in current prices). Expressed in constant prices the expected increase in...

"Im vorliegenden Aufsatz werden eine Reihe der auf produktionstheoretischer Basis im 1. Teil dieses Beitrags entwickelten Verfahren - erschienen in Heft 2/1977 der MittAB - für die Industriezweige und -gruppen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland empirisch getestet und erste Schätzergebnisse...

"In volkswirtschaftlichen Modellansätzen wird üblicherweise von einem sehr hohen Aggregationsgrad bei der Formulierung unmittelbarer Einflußgrößen des quantitativen Arbeitskräftebedarfs der Wirtschaft ausgegangen. Der hier vorgelegte, mehr betriebswirtschaftlich ausgerichtete Ansatz...