In 2008, 72.1% of all Austrian goods exports went to the EU-27; thereof, 17.6% went to the Eastern European states that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007, and 24.6% to Eastern Europe at large. While export demand for Austrian goods has declined markedly since the end of 2008, in the context of the...

The European Commission and euro area central banks use different methods to calculate export market shares and rely on different data sources to do so. Thus, the resulting evidence varies considerably over time, prompting different economic policy conclusions with respect to the development of...

Christian Ragacs develops contributions to the theory of minimum wages, while taking rationing and spill-over effects on markets other than the labour market into account. Following an introduction into the theory of minimum wages and a discussion of methodological problems, four new theoretical...

The European Commission and euro area central banks use different methods to calculate export market shares and rely on different data sources to do so. Thus, the resulting evidence varies considerably over time, prompting different economic policy conclusions with respect to the development of...

Dieser Aufsatz beleuchtet die Entwicklung der grundlegenden Berechnungsformeln der Eigenkapitalunterlegung für Unternehmen im Rahmen von Basel II. Der Basler Ausschuss bezieht sich darin zwar auf theoretische Modelle zur Berechnung der notwendigen Eigenkapitalunterlegung, durch verschiedene...