EU and Austria

Austria Report Austria

Ever since individual locus standi before the Cartel Court was introduced in 1993, private enforcement of competition rules has played an important role in Austria. To a considerable extent, actions by private parties, or by public institutions such as the Chamber of Labour, have compensated for the lack of a public prosecutor in competition matters. However, in most cases these private enforce...

Factors influencing the FDI Location choice for knowledge intensive services and headquarters within the EU and Austria

Zusammenfassung: Bestimmungsfaktoren der Direktinvestitionen in wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen: Der Fall von Neugründungen In Österreich liefern ausländisch kontrollierte Unternehmen einen bedeutenden Beitrag für Wachstum und Beschäftigung sowie für Forschungsund Entwicklungsaktivitäten. Traditionell bedeutsam sind auch Headquarterfunktionen. Während für die Bestimmungsfaktoren der internat...

Direct payments of the CAP – distribution across farm holdings in the EU and effects on farm household incomes in Austria

In 1992, the EU initiated the process of decoupling income transfers from agricultural production which has culminated in the 2003 reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP). In this reform 'single farm payments' have been introduced which are based on direct payments during the reference period 2000-2002. We use statistics of such payments to explore the distribution patterns across farm h...

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials

Christmas and Suicides in Austria

Background: Contrary to the myth that suicides increase around Christmas, multiple studies reveal that suicide rates decrease towards Christmas and return back to normal or even peak in the beginning of the new year. We aimed to replicate this effect for Austria. Methods: The analyses were based on the official suicide statistics 2000 – 2013 using Poission regression and Bayesian changepoint an...