IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/110038.html

Revamping Policy Governance in Austria: The EU’s impact 25 years on

Author

Listed:
  • Handler, Heinz

Abstract

This contribution reviews some economic governance aspects of the EU’s 1995 enlargement. The focus is on selected fields of internal market pertinence in Austria compared with Finland and Sweden. The analysis starts with an overview of Austria’s initial position and reviews the instruments of EU economic governance at the time, including fiscal rules and instruments. The central part of the paper is devoted to the adjustments required to comply with the gradual completion and refinement of the internal market. Special attention is given to competition policy and public procurement. Overall, economic governance in Austria was significantly “modernized” in the course of approaching and implementing EU membership. Although this contributed to a sustained improvement in competitiveness, Austria was in many respects lagging behind the comparative performances of Finland and Sweden.

Suggested Citation

  • Handler, Heinz, 2020. "Revamping Policy Governance in Austria: The EU’s impact 25 years on," MPRA Paper 110038, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:110038
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/110038/1/MPRA_paper_110038.pdf
    File Function: original version
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Beetsma, Roel & Debrun, Xavier, 2016. "Fiscal Councils: Rationale and Effectiveness," CEPR Discussion Papers 11140, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Hans Seidel, 2017. "Wirtschaft und Wirtschaftspolitik in der Kreisky-Ära," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 60441, October.
    3. Jens Høj & Miguel Jimenez & Maria Maher & Giuseppe Nicoletti & Michael Wise, 2007. "Product Market Competition in the OECD Countries: Taking Stock and Moving Forward," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 575, OECD Publishing.
    4. Heinz Handler & Michael Böheim & Martin Falk & Ewald Walterskirchen, 2004. "Strukturreformen in Österreich aus der Sicht der Lissabon-Agenda," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 25330, October.
    5. Helmut Kramer, 1994. "Austria in the European Union (English Summary)," WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports), WIFO, vol. 67(5), pages 12-17, May.
    6. Yvonne Wolfmayr & Klaus S. Friesenbichler & Harald Oberhofer & Michael Pfaffermayr & Iulia Siedschlag & Mattia Di Ubaldo & Manuel Tong Koecklin & Weijie Yan, 2019. "The Performance of the Single Market for Goods After 25 Years," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 61982, October.
    7. Handler, Heinz & Burger, Christina, 2002. "Competition and competitiveness in a new economy," MPRA Paper 44944, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. Fritz Breuss & Heinz Handler & Jan Stankovsky, 1988. "Österreichische Optionen einer EG-Annäherung und ihre Folgen," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 2897, October.
    9. Heinz Handler, 2015. "Strategic Public Procurement: An Overview. WWWforEurope Policy Paper No. 28," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 58552, October.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Anders Gustafsson, 2019. "Busy doing nothing: why politicians implement inefficient policies," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 30(3), pages 282-299, September.
    2. Gabriela Castro & José R. Maria & Paulo Júlio, 2013. "Inside PESSOA -A Detailed Description of the Model," Working Papers w201316, Banco de Portugal, Economics and Research Department.
    3. repec:cfe:wpcefa:2014_07 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Comăniciu Carmen, 2017. "The Fiscal Councils – Independent Fiscal Institutions for Ensuring Fiscal Discipline," Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series, Ovidius University of Constantza, Faculty of Economic Sciences, vol. 0(2), pages 531-536, December.
    5. Crafts, Nicholas & Toniolo, Gianni, 2008. "European Economic Growth, 1950-2005: An Overview," CEPR Discussion Papers 6863, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    6. Momo Komatsu & David Murakami & Ivan Shchapov, 2025. "Productivity over the life-cycle and its effect on the interest rate," The Japanese Economic Review, Springer, vol. 76(2), pages 429-461, April.
    7. Nicholas Crafts & Marco Magnani, 2011. "The Golden Age and the Second Globalization in Italy," Quaderni di storia economica (Economic History Working Papers) 17, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
    8. Gomes, Sandra, 2018. "Euro area structural reforms in times of a global crisis," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 28-45.
    9. Harald Oberhofer & Michael Pfaffermayr & Yvonne Wolfmayr, 2021. "Die Auswirkungen des Brexit auf Österreichs Wirtschaft," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 66782, October.
    10. Cristina Fasone, 2021. "Do Independent Fiscal Institutions Enhance Parliamentary Accountability in the Eurozone?," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 9(3), pages 135-144.
    11. Andersen, Torben M., 2019. "Intergenerational conflict and public sector size and structure: A rationale for debt limits?," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 70-88.
    12. Asatryan, Zareh & Debrun, Xavier & Heinemann, Friedrich & Horvath, Michal & Ódor, Ľudovít & Yeter, Mustafa, 2017. "Making the most of the European Fiscal Board," ZEW policy briefs 3/2017, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    13. Iyanatul Islam, 2018. "Fiscal Consolidation, Growth and Employment: International Evidence and Implications for India," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 61(1), pages 105-130, March.
    14. Sancharan Roy, 2011. "Competitiveness in Service Sector," Global Business Review, International Management Institute, vol. 12(1), pages 51-69, February.
    15. Pigoń, Adam & Ramsza, Michał, . "Porównanie niemieckiej, szwajcarskiej i polskiej reguły fiskalnej przy użyciu symulacji Monte Carlo," Gospodarka Narodowa-The Polish Journal of Economics, Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie / SGH Warsaw School of Economics, vol. 2022(4).
    16. Claudia-Elena Þuclea & Ana-Mihaela Pãdurean, 2008. "Competitiveness In Hospitality Industry: Romanian Style," Management and Marketing Journal, University of Craiova, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, vol. 6(1), pages 105-114, November.
    17. Gunther Tichy, 2019. "The Neglected Mass Saving. The Economic Consequences of Increasing Intermediation," WIFO Bulletin, WIFO, vol. 24(17), pages 153-166, December.
    18. Vanda Almeida & Gabriela Castro & Ricardo Félix, 2010. "Improving competition in the non-tradable goods and labour markets: the Portuguese case," Portuguese Economic Journal, Springer;Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao, vol. 9(3), pages 163-193, December.
    19. Gale Raj‐Reichert & Cornelia Staritz & Leonhard Plank, 2022. "Conceptualizing the Regulator‐Buyer State in the European Union for the Exercise of Socially Responsible Public Procurement in Global Production Networks," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(3), pages 759-782, May.
    20. Yvonne Wolfmayr & Kurt Kratena & Peter Mayerhofer & Jan Stankovsky, 2006. "Teilstudie 13: Exporte von Waren und Dienstleistungen stärken die Nachfrage," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 27452, October.
    21. Debrun, Xavier & Gerard, Marc & Harris, Jason, 2016. "Fiscal Watchdogs and Sound Fiscal Policy: Is the Barking Loud Enough to Tame Politicians?," MPRA Paper 96683, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2019.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    JEL classification:

    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • H60 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - General
    • K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
    • K23 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
    • L16 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:110038. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Joachim Winter (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/vfmunde.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.