IMF Staff Country Reports

Austria: Selected Issues

July 25, 2005

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This Selected Issues paper estimates a dynamic model of foreign currency loans to households in Austria to analyze their behavior and assess the effectiveness of measures intended to stem their rise. This paper also studies the developments in Austria’s economic linkages with Germany and the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs). It finds that there has been delinking from Germany, albeit measured, while economic relationships with key CEEC trading partners have become stronger. The paper also discusses the dynamics of Austria’s economic linkages with Germany, and examines these linkages with the CEECs.

Subject: Currencies, Exchange rates, External debt, Financial institutions, Foreign exchange, Housing prices, Loans, Money, Prices

Keywords: Austria, Austria-Germany relationship, Austria's export, Central and Eastern Europe, CR, Currencies, Enhanced integration, Europe, Exchange rates, Foreign currency loan, Housing prices, ISCR, Loan equation, Loans, Loans to household, Trade intensity, Trade link, Trade pattern

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    55

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2005/249

  • Stock No:

    1AUTEA2005002

  • ISBN:

    9781451802375

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685