The effect of eastern enlargement will vary greatly between sectors of the Austrian economy, not least due to the current framework of trade policies. Trading with industrial products simply continues or completes the progress made by the process of liberalisation. Trends visible since the...

The "Centrope – Middle European Region" was established in 2003 by representatives of the cities and regions of Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland, West Transdanubia, Bratislava, Western Slovakia, and South Moravia. As an institutional framework for cross-border cooperation, it is supposed to...

The last decade has seen a fundamental revaluation of the role of tertiary sectors in the development of large cities. Services are now seen as catalysts rather than as accompaniments to the economic development of cities. In a global context, suppliers of high-quality services are concentrated...

The continuation of the upswing accentuated the growth differentials among the Austrian provinces in 1990. In contrast to earlier cycles, in 1990 the Eastern parts of Austria were favoured by the late phase of the boom and economic growth was higher than in the West.

Austria's tourism sector will continue to shrink in 1996. Further losses in arrivals (–0.3 percent) and overnight stays (–3.8 percent) in the current tourism year are mainly due to the accelerated decline in the German market segment in the summer months. Currency depreciations in important...

Die Intensivierung des Außenhandels im europäischen Integrationsprozeß verändert die räumliche Wirtschaftsstruktur Österreichs nachhaltig. Zunehmender inter-industrieller Handel schwächt einseitig strukturierte Regionen mit komparativen Standortnachteilen (Schwerindustriegebiete und...

Regional disparities in economic growth became squeezed with the business cycle slowdown. Provinces with a high share of mass production of manufactures were the most affected by the deceleration of industrial activity. In the Eastern region industry benefitted from domestic demand and some...

As vicinity to the major trading partner Germany at present carries no substantial advantage the main Austrian regions are all affected to a similar extent by the recession. The Salzburg province and the Tyrol draw some benefit from a broader export base, while in Carinthia cyclical fluctuations...

Economic recovery is still mostly fueled by exports. Domestic demand as much as tourist travel continued to be subdued, a fallout from the general emphasis on budgetary consolidation in Europe. Exports to EU countries concentrated on primary products, and the level of integration in European...

Even in the current recovery the regional growth pattern of Austria's economy remains characterized by an unusually high degree of uniformity. Structural factors and the improvement in locational factors in the eastern part of Austria determine the pace of the upswing, which is more highly...