Publications

Journal Articles

Inter-regional Mobility in Europe: A Note on the Cross-Country Evidence, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 11, August 2004

Intra-national Labor market Adjustment in the Candidate Countries, Journal of Comparative Economics, 32: 248-264, June 2004

A Note on Export Openness and Regional Disparity in Central and Eastern Europe, (with Peter Egger and Michael Paffermayr), Annals of Regional Science, forthcomming

Wo die Luft dünn wird – Zur Publikationstätigkeit empirischer Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute, (with
A. Keil) Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, August 2004, Vol. 5, iss. 3, pp. 363-375(13)

The Impact of Eastern Integration on a regional Labour Market (in Russian), Problemy Teorii i Praktika Upravleniya, 5/2003, pp. 45-50

Small Firms in Cross-Border Business Networks with the CEEC: Evidence From Austria, Transition Studies Review, Vol. X, 3/2003, pp 55-65

On the determinants of Cross-Border Cooperation of Austrian Firms with Central and Eastern European Partners, Regional Studies 37(9): 947-956, 2003

Wage and Mobility Effects of Trade and Migration in Austria, (joint with H. Hofer) Empirica, 30(2):107-125, 2003

Poland’s Accession to the European Union – Demand for Protection of Selective Sensitive Products, (With J. Fidrmuc and J.J. Michalek), MOCT-MOST 11, pp. 45-67, 2001

Osterweiterung, Struktureller Wandel und Arbeitsmärkte (mit K. Pichelmann) in Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, 1998/4, pp. 339 –349

Observations on Russian Business Networks ” (with A. Wörgötter) in Post Soviet Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1998, pp 81 - 91

Stock Market Returns in Thin Markets - Evidence from the Vienna Stock Exchange” in Journal of Applied Financial Economics, no. 7, 1997, pp. 493 - 498.

Collective Volumes

What can we learn from Literature on Labour Market Adjustments in the Candidate Countries in Karl Aiginger (ed.) "The Future of European Policy consulting”, Kluwer, Amsterdam, forthcoming Migration and Regions – The case of Austria, in Ralph Rotte Migration Policy and the Economy: International Experiences, pp157 – 178, ars et unitas, Neuried, 2002

Akcesja Polski do Unii Europejskiej; zapotzebowanie na ochrone wybranych towarov, (mit J. Fidrmuc und J.J. Michalek), in Studia Europejskie,  Warszaw, 2000

What A Difference A Constant Makes – How Predictable are International Migration Flows? (with B. Alecke and G. Untiedt) in OECD “Migration policies and EU Enlargement – The Case of Central and Eastern Europe”,pp. 63 - 78 OECD, Paris, 1999

Local Unemployment Dynamics in Cenral and Eastern Europe: A Comparison of Three Countries (mit A. Wörgötter) in G. R. Crampton (ed.)  Regional Unemployment, Job Matching, and Migration, European Research in Regional Economics, Pion, London, S 35 – 48. 1999

East - West Trade in Transition: The Case of Austria” (with J. Fidrmuc and C. Helmenstein) in Cook G. (Ed.) The Economics and Politics of International Trade - Freedom and Trade: Volume II, Routledge, London, 1998

Political Survival or Entrepreneurial Development (mit A. Wörgötter) in (S.C. Cohen, A. Schwartz and J. Zysman (Ed.) The Tunnel at the end of the Light: Privatization, Business Networks and Economic Transformation in Russia, University of Califonia, Berkley, 1998,
pp.51 - 65.

Economic Development in the Tomsk Region (mit A. Wörgötter and S. Nagaev) in A Regional Approach to Industrial Restructuring in the Tomsk Region, OECD Proceedings, Paris, 1998

Impact of Reforms on the East - West Trade 1989 - 1994” (with J. Fidrmuc and C. Helmenstein) in Ovin, R. (Ed.) Reform and Economic Policy Co-ordination, Maribor, 1996.

Krasnoyarsk: A region based Approach to Industrial Restructuring” (mit S. Nagaev and A. Wörgötter) in: OECD Workshop on Industrial Restructuring in the Russian Region of Krasnoyarsk, OECD, Paris, 1996

Regional Economic Structures and Unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe: An Attempt to Identify Common Patterns” (with S. Scarpetta), in “The regional Dimension of Unemployment in Transition Economies”, OECD, Paris, 1995

Problems of Local Labor Markets Dominated by large Enterprises” (with P. Ochotnicky), in “The regional Dimension of Unemployment in Transition Economies”, OECD, Paris, 1995

Other Publications

Regionale Entwicklung und Anpassung des Arbeitsmarktes in Ost-Mitteleuropa with Iulia Traistaru WIFO-Monatsberichte, 11/2003

Effects of EU Eastern Enlargement on the Regional Labour Market, Wifo, Quarterly, 1/2002

Regionale Arbeitsmarktwirkungen der Ostintegration WIFO-Monatsberichte, 11/2001

Regionale Polarisierung in Ost-Mitteleuropa (with Gerhard Palme) WIFO-Monatsberichte, 3/2001

Unternehmenskooperationen mit den MOEL (with Daniela Kletzan) WIFO-Monatsberichte, 2/2001

Außenhandel und Löhne. Ein Literaturüberblick (with Yvonne Wolfmayr-Schnitzer ) WIFO-Monatsberichte, 3/2000

Möglichkeiten und Auswirkungen einer Senkung der Lohnnebenkosten (with Ewald Walterskirchen,  Gerhard Lehner, and Andrea Weber) WIFO-Monatsberichte, 2/2000

Hohes Wachstum bei raschem Strukturwandel in Niederösterreich, WIFO – Monatsberichte 12/1998, S 855 – 863.

Der Österreichische Aussenhandel, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten, Sektion Wirtschaftspolitik, Wien, 1997

Projects International Organisations  (Co-Author)

“Labour Market Adjustment in the Accession Candidate Countries - ACCESSLAB” European Union – 5^th framework program Project Number

Optimal exchange Rate Policy in Candidate Countries European Commission Phare-ACE grant P98-1061-R

Preparity – Strukturpolitik und Raumplanung in den Regionen an der Mitteleuropäischen EU-Außengrenze zur Vorbereitung auf die EU – Osterweiterung, - work in progress – EU Interreg IIC

“Legal and Economic Assistance to the Ministry of Economy - Analysis of the impact on Polish economy and trade of the acceptance by Poland the rules and instruments of common trade policy, with special consideration of acceptance of common external custom tariff and development of optimal mode of adjusting Polish custom rates to the level of the EU customs”,  European Union – PHARE Project - PL 9405.01.04/420

“Regional Economics as applied to the peculiar Problems of Transition in Previously Highly Defense Dependent Regions and Industries of the NIS”, European Union- TEMPUS/TACIS

A Regional Approach to Industrial Restructuring in the Tomsk Region, OECD, Paris, 1998

“Regional Development in Krasnojarsk”, OECD, 1996

Current Work

The Puzzle of Rising Regional Disparities and Falling Migration Rates during Transition, with Jan Fidrmuc 5^th framework program ACCESSLAB working paper