Foreign Trade in the Austrian Regions

Bericht

This policy brief introduces a method to estimate foreign trade of the nine Austrian NUTS-2 regions. The basic idea of the method is to disaggregate national foreign trade data to the regional level using national input-output, regional employment and other supplemental data. This allows for the estimation of foreign trade of the Austrian regions for the years 1999 to 2009. The results indicate highly differentiated patterns of trade competitiveness across the Austrian regions. While Upper Austria and Vorarlberg perform well on European and global markets, other regions, foremost Burgenland, are in a much more difficult position. The regions' reactions to the 2009 economic crisis were equally differentiated. Although the decline of foreign trade led to an employment loss in all Austrian regions, Vorarlberg and Tyrol proved to be much more resilient than others.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: FIW Policy Brief ; No. 16

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data; Data Access ; Trade: General ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; General Regional Economics: Econometric and Input-Output Models; Other Models
• Subject: Austria ; regions ; Bundesländer ; foreign trade ; economic crisis

Contributors, Location and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Römisch, Roman
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): FIW - Research Centre International Economics
• (where): Vienna
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/121887
• Last update: 20.09.2024, 8:20 AM CEST