02446nam a22003737u 4500001001000000003000400010005001700014008004100031040000800072041000800080084002900088100001800117245012300135260008600258300003200344490003800376520129700414650002001711650001901731650003001750650002201780650002301802650001901825650001201844651001201856651001001868700002301878700001901901700001801920700002401938700002401962830005101986856003502037pwiiw4631OSt20260516120039.0181019t2018    au ||||| |||| 00| ||eng d  cOSt  aeng  aD24aF14aF41aE642jelc1 aGhodsi, Mahdi10aAustria’s Economic Competitiveness in a Neighbourhood Context: Is Austria’s Economy Locked-in to the CESEE Region?  aWien :bWiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw),c2018.  a21 S., b11 Figures,c30cm.1 awiiw Policy Notes and Reportsv26  aSince the Eastern enlargement of the EU in 2004, Austria has lost global export market shares. At the same time exports to Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) have gained a significant portion of Austria’s total exports. Moreover, in recent years Austrian GDP growth has slowed down and unemployment increased. In this context our main research question is whether the opening to the East has had a structural lock-in effect for Austria’s economy. In a novel approach on the territorial lock-in effect we apply a multi-perspective view from a microeconomic (firm-level), mesoeconomic (industry-level) and macroeconomic (country-level) perspective. The major finding is that by and large Austria is not subject to a lock-in effect into CESEE markets. On the contrary, the results suggest a growing internationalisation of the Austrian export structure. Nevertheless, policy recommendations that aim at further improving Austria’s competitiveness include a productivity‑oriented wage policy, an industrial policy that aims at technological upgrading, support for European policy measures that speed up income convergence across the continent as well as additional measures to internationalise Austrian businesses with a focus on the booming emerging markets in India and Africa.
  acompetitiveness  alock-in effect  atotal factor productivity  avalue added trade  areal exchange rate  aEastern Europe  aAustria  aAustria  aCESEE1 aHanzl-Weiss, Doris1 aHolzner, Mario1 aPindyuk, Olga1 aStöllinger, Roman1 aHeimberger, Philipp 0v26wWIIW0000092twiiw Policy Notes and Reports40uhttps://wiiw.ac.at/p-4631.html