By the 2002 amendment to the antitrust and competition legislation, the structure of Austria's competition institutions was approximated to European standards, however not without maintaining some specific Austrian peculiarities. Six years of practical application have revealed considerable...

Since the mid-1990s, competition in the Austrian product markets has become markedly more vigorous, driven by "externally induced" competition-oriented structural reforms. In terms of product market regulation, Austria ranks in the middle range in international comparisons. Same as other...

After a long process of catching up and successful integration into the world economy, Austrian industry now ranks among the best in Europe in terms of productivity, with the share of Austrian exports in the world market rising in the long run. The curbing of labour cost increases and the...

An economic analysis of competition in the main local and regional food retail markets in Austria finds that regional market leaders already enjoy a share of more than 30 percent in their respective markets, a situation that prevails in all of Austria with the exception of Burgenland. The...

With the amendment to the cartel law in 2002, a new institutional basis had been established for competition policy in Austria. Responding to domestic and European pressure to reform, legislators provided the groundwork for setting up the Federal Competition Authority and Federal Cartel...

An analysis of the Austrian manufacturing sector found persistent structural deficits which continue to hamper Austria's rise to the top ranks of leading industrialised countries: over-specialisation on labour-intensive industries, concurrent with under-specialisation on research-intensive...

The current Austrian antitrust law regime has been in force for six years. Experience so far has clearly brought to the fore the strengths and weaknesses of the institutional setup and procedures in place, from which a need for reform may be derived. The latter arises largely from the fact that...

A detailed examination of the determinants of industry growth is of particular relevance to industrial policy. This article uses a comprehensive panel approach to analyse the growth process of manufacturing industries in the EU countries over the period 1985-1997. Following a review theoretical...

Electricity market liberalisation introduced in Austria four years ago initially brought the expected price reductions for both small and large users of electricity – but not more competition. Due to unresolved homemade structural problems, liberalisation has left incumbent electricity...

Since the mid-1990s, product market competition in Austria has become markedly more vigorous, driven by "externally induced" competition-oriented structural reforms. Under this changed framework the performance of the Austrian economy in the 1990s was quite satisfactory. Recently, however, this...