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Sectoral studies



Main research focus
In our work we pay considerable attention to the detailed studies of specific sectors of the economy, their characteristics and the role of structural change within these sectors and in their linkages to the rest of the economy. We focus on industries in the CEE, SEE and CIS countries but often take a comparative perspective, both at the overall European and, at times, global levels.

New directions
Our work is based on the use of industry-level statistics which is increasingly complemented with firm-level information. We complement at times officially available statistics with specific surveys or specific information collected at the national level or in combination with our network of local experts.

Methods
We also model industry developments in terms of future trends (e.g. in technology, changing patterns of demand, etc.), the impact upon other industries and the overall economy, and analyse the impact of changing global patterns of competition, of integration and of trade policy environments upon industrial developments in CEE, SEE and CIS economies.
A particular focus of recent research has been on issues of energy supply and energy security as well as restructuring of the energy sector and the role of services in national and global inter-industry linkages.

Vasily Astrov
Economist

e-mail: astrov@wiiw.ac.at
Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-30

Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, CIS; macroeconomic analysis; financial markets; energy issues
Joseph F. Francois
Senior Research Associate

e-mail: francois@wiiw.ac.at
Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-10

Professor of economics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz

trade in services; open economy competition policy and regulation of firm behaviour; financial market integration; open economy growth and development; economic integration; multilateral trading system; trade and investment policy under imperfect competition; labour market impact of globalization; the role of the service sector in trade and development; computational partial and general equilibrium modelling; income distribution in general equilibrium models of trade and competition
Doris Hanzl-Weiss
Economist

e-mail: hanzl@wiiw.ac.at
Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-32

Slovakia; industrial structural change, sector analysis
Mario Holzner
Economist

e-mail: holzner@wiiw.ac.at
Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-28

Albania; Southeast Europe; income distribution and inequality; foreign trade; macroeconomic analysis; financial markets; webmaster of the Balkan Observatory website
Zdenek Lukas
Economist

e-mail: lukas@wiiw.ac.at
Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-10

Slovak Republic; agriculture in Central, East and Southeast Europe
As of May 31, 2011 Mr. Lukas has retired from the position of senior economist of the institute.
He will be available to wiiw until the end of 2011 and may be contacted via his usual e-mail address.
Ms. Hanzl is taking on his duties on questions concerning Slovakia.
Olga Pindyuk
Economist

e-mail: pindyuk@wiiw.ac.at
Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-56

Kazakhstan, CIS; foreign trade; financial markets
Josef Pöschl
Economist

e-mail: poeschl@wiiw.ac.at
Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-37

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey; macroeconomic analysis
Hermine Vidovic
Economist

e-mail: vidovic@wiiw.ac.at
Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-45

Croatia, Slovenia; labour markets and social policy
Selected bibliography of wiiw researchers

Articles in refereed journals
  • 'Why are goods cheaper in rich European Countries: Beyond the Balassa-Samuelson Effect' (by Leon Podkaminer), Metroeconomica, Vol. 62, No. 4, November 2011, pp. 712-728
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-999X.2011.04136.x/abstract
  • 'Tourism and economic development: The beach disease?' (by Mario Holzner), Tourism Management, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2011, pp. 922-933
  • 'Sectoral Productivity, Density and Agglomeration in the Wider Europe' (by Neil Foster and Robert Stehrer), Spatial Economic Analysis, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2009, pp. 377-396
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17421770903317629
  • 'Industrial Diversity, Trade Patterns, and Productivity Dynamics' (by Robert Stehrer and Julia Wörz), Review of Development Economics, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2009, pp. 356-372
Articles in books
  • 'Policy recommendations' (by Doris Hanzl-Weiss and Josef Pöschl), Healthy and Safe Food for the Future, Chapter 4, UNIDO, Vienna, 2009, pp. 67-77
  • 'Sectoral productivity, demand, and terms of trade: what drives the real appreciation of East European currencies?' (by Vasily Astrov), in: W. Bagatelas and B. Sergi (eds), Ethical interpretations of post-communist transition economics and politics in Europe, Iura Edition, Bratislava, 2005, pp. 167-199
Articles in non-refereed journals
  • 'Die Landwirtschaft der NMS (10) in 2009' (by Zdenek Lukas and Josef Pöschl), Osteuropa-Wirtschaft , 4/2009, No. 54, November 2009
  • 'Resilience and conflict in European natural gas relations' (by Edward Christie), Journal of Energy and Security, October 2009
Other working papers and discussion series
  • 'Social Consequences of Transition' (by Vladimir Gligorov), Future of Social Change, Bucharest, June 2009
  • 'China's foreign oil policy: genesis, deployment and selected effects' (by Joseph F. Francois, Waltraut Urban and Franz Wirl), in: Edward Christie (ed), FIW Research Reports 2009/2010, No. 3, Vienna, 2009
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Monthly Report No. 2/2012
(by Vladimir Gligorov, Zdenek Lukas and Roman Stöllinger)
Leon Podkaminer (ed)
wiiw Monthly Report No. 2, February 2012
24 pages including 11 Tables and 4 Figures
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Higher global grain output but still fairly high food prices (by Zdenek Lukas; pp. 1-4) Keywords: agricultural production, demand for food, food prices, biofuels Countries covered: Wider Europe Topics: Sectoral studies The speed of catch-up depends on human capital (by Roman Stöllinger; pp. 5-9) Keywords: catch-up, human capital, growth accounting, threshold regressions Countries covered: non-specific Topics: Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Two transitions: a brief on analyses and policies for MENA and CESEE (by Vladimir Gligorov; pp. 10-12) Keywords: transition, ...more

Monthly Report No. 12/2011
(by Vladimir Gligorov, Stefan Kawalec, Michael Landesmann and Leon Podkaminer)
Leon Podkaminer (ed)
wiiw Monthly Report No. 12, December 2011
32 pages including 11 Tables and 3 Figures
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Poland: new government, but not-so-new policy? (by Leon Podkaminer; pp. 1-2 ) Keywords: fiscal policy, fiscal consolidation Countries covered: Poland Topics: Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Banks in Poland should be under domestic control (by Stefan Kawalec; pp. 3-10) Keywords: banking system ownership, deleveraging Countries covered: Poland Topics: Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy; Sectoral studies Bulgaria: fiscal space and competitiveness (by Vladimir Gligorov and Michael Landesmann; pp. 11-17) Keywords: competitiveness, fiscal policy Countries covered: Bulgaria ...more

Monthly Report No. 4/2011
(by Vasily Astrov, Doris Hanzl-Weiss, Lech Keller-Krawczyk and Zdenek Lukas)
Leon Podkaminer (ed)
wiiw Monthly Report No. 4, April 2011
30 pages including 14 Tables and 4 Figures
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Supply-demand imbalanced drive food prices (by Zdenek Lukas; pp. 1-6) Keywords: agricultural production, food supply and demand, food prices, inflation Countries covered: EU, New EU Member States Topics: Sectoral studies; Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy The gas and electricity sectors of the Western Balkan countries (by Vasily Astrov and Doris Hanzl-Weiss; pp. 7-12) Keywords: electricity sector, gas sector Countries covered: SEE Topics: Sectoral Studies; Regional Development Recent problems with private pension funds in Poland (by Lech Keller-Krawczyk; pp. 13-16) Keywords: pe...more

Western Balkans: Employment in the Gas and Electricity Sectors
(by Vasily Astrov, Edward Christie, Doris Hanzl-Weiss, Mario Holzner, Sebastian Leitner, Waltraut Urban and Hermine Vidovic)
wiiw Research Report No. 370, March 2011
150 pages including 24 Tables and 27 Figures
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The objective of this study is to analyse employment developments in the gas and electricity sectors in seven Western Balkan Contracting Parties of the Energy Community. These are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99. In addition, the impact of the liberalization of the respective markets is examined (quantitatively and qualitatively) and the most likely trends for the future development are identified....more

Monthly Report No. 2/2011
(by Vladimir Gligorov, J. Kornai, Kosovka Ognjenović, Olga Pindyuk, Robert Stehrer and Hermine Vidovic)
Leon Podkaminer (ed)
wiiw Monthly Report No. 2, February 2011
42 pages including 20 Tables and 5 Figures
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Hungary: taking stock (by J. Kornai; pp. 1-12) Keywords: economic policy, reform Countries covered: Hungary Topics: Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Developments in trade and FDI in services in the Visegrad countries (by O. Pindyuk; pp. 13-20) Keywords: trade, services, FDI Countries covered: Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia Topics: International Trade, Competitiveness and FDI The labour market in Serbia: an assessment (by V. Gligorov, K. Ognjenovic, R. Stehrer and H. Vidovic; pp. 21-27) Keywords: labour market, unemployment Countries covered: Serbia Topics: Labour...more

Monthly Report No. 1/2011
(by Doris Hanzl-Weiss, Gabor Hunya, Sandor Richter and Robert Stehrer)
wiiw Monthly Report No. 1, January 2011
36 pages including 17 Tables
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The role of services in the new member states: a comparative analysis based on input-output tables (by D. Hanzl-Weiss and R. Stehrer; pp. 1-8) Keywords: NMS, input-output, services Countries covered: New EU Member States Topics: Sectoral studies Intra-Visegrad Group trade after the EU accession (by S. Richter; pp. 9-14) Keywords: trade, Visegrad countries, EU accession Countries covered: New EU Member States Topics: International Trade, Competitiveness and FDI FDI among the Visegrad countries before and after EU accession (by G. Hunya; pp. 15-23) Keywords: FDI, Visegrad countri...more

EU Gas Supplies Security: Russian and EU Perspectives, the Role of the Caspian, the Middle East and the Maghreb Countries
(by Gerhard Mangott)
wiiw Research Report No. 367, December 2010
68 pages including 5 Tables, 9 Figures and 21 Maps
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This report tracks the major geo-economic and geo-strategic ruptures between the EU and Russia on the future patterns of gas supplies and shipping routes to the EU and the Western Balkans. It identifies the objectives and interests of the actors involved in this struggle: Russia, the EU, various EU members, the countries of the Caspian Basin (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan) and the Middle East (Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Egypt) as well as the Maghreb countries (Algeria, Libya). It analyses in great detail the colliding interests of all actors at the intersection of business and (...more

The Role of Services in the New Member States: A Comparative Analysis Based on Input-Output Tables
(by Doris Hanzl-Weiss and Robert Stehrer)
wiiw Research Report No. 366, November 2010
91 pages including 26 Tables and 37 Figures
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Using input-output analysis, this research project investigates the role of services in the Central European new EU member states (NMS) – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia – and compares it to that in Austria. The role of services includes not only their position in the production structure per se but also their increasing importance as an intermediate input for manufacturing and other services. As services were underdeveloped under the former system in the new EU member states, it is interesting to look at their features and changes over time. The analysis ...more

Monthly Report No. 8-9/2010
(by Martin Feldkircher, Mario Holzner, R. Martin, Kazimierz Poznanski, Julia Wörz and Vasyl Yurchyshyn)
wiiw Monthly Report No. 8-9, August-September 2010
36 pages including 10 Tables and 7 Figures
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wiiw Industrial Database Eastern Europe 2010
wiiw Industrial Database
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Content The wiiw Industrial Database Eastern Europe is an indispensable tool for analysing industrial restructuring and changing patterns of specialization in Eastern Europe covers 13 countries, a long time span and a wide range of indicators allows for a comparison across countries, individual industries and over time data provided according to NACE Rev. 1 classification The database contains about 14,500 time series on industry in Central, East and Southeast Europe. The 13 countries currently covered are: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, La...more

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European Energy Security: Summary Findings and Policy Implications
(by Vasily Astrov, Andreas Breitenfellner, Edward Christie, Peter Havlik and Gerhard Mangott)
Closing workshop on OeNB Jubiläumsfonds Project No. 115
3 May 2010, 9:30 a.m., Venue: wiiw, 1060 Vienna, Rahlgasse 3
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