Institutional and structural changes affecting the financial and banking sector in Europe and thus also in Austria provide the background for an analysis of the profitability and competitive situation faced by Austrian banks since the country's accession to the European Union. The analysis is...

The world-wide tendency towards liberalization and deregulation of capital markets has led to significant structural and organizational reforms of the European stock exchanges. The most prominent features of these reforms are computerisation and the introduction of more efficient and rapid...

This article examines the nature of the linkage between financial development and economic fluctuation in 22 OECD countries over the period from 1970 through 2000. Two econometric techniques are used: The first, a cross-sectional instrument variable estimator, deals, to some degree, with the...

The crisis in the Far East could depress the growth of Austria's exports by at most 0.5 percentage points and the expansion of real GDP by 0.1 percentage point to 0.2 percentage points, even under pessimistic assumptions. To the direct effects must be added the indirect effects resulting from...

Business cycles in the U. S., Western Germany and Austria are highly interrelated. As a rule, the primary impact is originating in the U. S. and then transmitted to Western Germany with one ore more quarters' time lag. After at least another three months the repercussions from the German cycle...

This analysis focuses on the assumption that management efficiency is one of the most important company-specific factors affecting a bank’s international activities. The theoretical results on whether good or bad management influences international activities in banking are mixed. We attempt...