Der Forschungs- und Technologiebericht 2016 ist ein Lagebericht über die aus Bundesmitteln geförderte Forschung, Technologie und Innovation in Österreich und wurde im Auftrag der Bundesministerien für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft (BMWFW) und Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie...

Der Forschungs- und Technologiebericht 2017 ist der Lagebericht über die aus Bundesmitteln geförderte Forschung, Technologie und Innovation in Österreich und wurde im Auftrag der Bundesministerien für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft (BMWFW) und Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie...

The network industries, which had been organized in a monopolistic fashion up to Austria's EU accession, were opened to competition following a number of EU Directives and are now mostly regulated by sectorspecific authorities. This fundamental change to the regulatory system has so far...

In the period from 2001 to 2004, Austrian households' consumption expenditure increased by 0.9% per annum in real terms, thus growing 1.6 percentage points more slowly on average than in the period from 1989 to 2000. Subdued consumption growth is attributable not only to economic stagnation, but...

As a basis for the evaluation of the Austrian system of research promotion the development of innovation in Austria, the related structural change as well as the framework conditions which affect the incentives and input factors for innovation, were assessed and compared internationally....

This study supplements previous empirical work on the relationship between the average rate of inflation and competition by adding a new approach for estimating markups and investigating the annual rate of inflation, price variance and price levels. Subject to certain qualifications, markups can...

This study looks into the factors determining price comparisons and supplier switching as revealed by a representative survey of Austrian consumers. Price comparisons and supplier switching can be interpreted as a measure of the competitive pressure that consumers exert on enterprises. Thereby,...