The biggest reform step to date in the liberalisation and deepening of the EU internal market for services was taken with the EU Services Directive. Its implementation intended to provide a clear impetus for the removal of existing obstacles to the free movement of services, the freedom of...

Die Analyse der aktuellsten Entwicklungen im Handelsstreit zwischen der EU und den USA diskutiert zunächst die generellen handelspolitischen Rahmenbedingungen für die Auseinandersetzung und die Bedeutung des Außenhandels mit den USA für die österreichische Wirtschaft. Wie eine...

Most firm-level research on the characteristics and strategies of globalized firms focuses on manufacturing industries while firm-level evidence on trade in services is still rare and has just recently begun to emerge. This study uses an unique dataset of Austrian service exporting firms over a...

We estimate a linear approximation of the market potential function derived in geography and trade models. Using a spatial econometric estimation approach, border effects can be identified by a differential impact of neighboring regions' purchasing power, depending on whether two regions are...