This paper presents an analysis of the effects that Austria's accession to the EU had on several key financial ratios of small business firms in the retail and wholesale trade sectors. These two industries were selected because before 1995 they were protected in many respects, thus vulnerable to...

In dieser Arbeit wird die Eignung des Instrumentariums der neuronalen Netze, im Konkreten der autoregressiven Neuronale-Netz-Modelle (ARNN), zur Modellierung und Prognose von makroökonomischen Zeitreihen untersucht und mit jenen der autoregressiven (AR) und autoregressiven...

The modelling of univariate time series is a subject of great importance in a variety of fields, in regional science and economics, and beyond. Time series modelling involves three major stages:model identification, model%0D estimation and diagnostic checking. This current paper focuses its...

In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of trade integration and outsourcing in the Austrian economy over the periods 1995-2000 and 2000-2005. Based on an input-output framework, we apply a hierarchical decomposition analysis to disentangle the...

In dieser Arbeit wird die Eignung des Instrumentariums der neuronalen Netze, im Konkreten der autoregressiven Neuronale-Netz-Modelle (ARNN), zur Modellierung und Prognose von makroökonomischen Zeitreihen untersucht und mit jenen der autoregressiven (AR) und autoregressiven...