Brief analyses and information

The brief analyses offer a concise overview of current economic and fiscal policy issues or of research papers prepared by the staff of the Office of the Fiscal Advisory Council. They provide evidence-based information to policymakers and economic agents, media representatives and the general public.

Austrian fiscal equalization and the new EU fiscal framework. (German version)

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What the European fiscal rules mean for municipalities, federal states and the federal government (Podcast; German Version)

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Changes to the pension system since 2018 incurred a budgetary burden of 7.5 billion euro (German version)

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Political budget cycles in Austria: High budgetary burden due to “election goodies” since 2008 (German version)

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Budgetary outlook 2024 and 2025 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council (German version)

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New EU fiscal framework – new complexity (German version)

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Temporary real income losses of Austrian households due to the rise in inflation significantly mitigated by policy measures (German version)

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Updated budgetary outlook 2023 and 2024 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory (German version)

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Budgetary outlook 2023 and 2024 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council (German version)

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Corporate energy cost subsidy II entails high budgetary burden and offers potential for improvement in the design of measures (German version)

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Energy cost subsidy for companies II: Austria subsidizes more intensively than German under currently foreseeable energy prices (German version)

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Impact of indexation to inflation under the Income Tax Act; “Abolition of tax bracket creep” (German version)

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European Commission´s proposal for a reform of fiscal rules– main elements and assessment (German version)

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Budgetary outlook 2022 and 2023 – a quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory (German version)

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Budgetary impact of the partial electricity price cap (German version)

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Concept paper on fiscal rules (German version)

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Distributional effects of Inflation-Relief Packages in 2022 (German version)

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Effect of inflation on consumption in 2022 (German version)

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Budgetary costs of COVID 19 guarantees (German version)

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Policy statement by the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council: “Enhancing the EU fiscal framework”

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Budgetary outlook 2022 and 2023 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council (German version)

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50 years at a glance: the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council (formerly called Government Debt Committee) (German version)

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Budgetary outlook 2021 and 2022 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council (German version)

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Distribution effects of the eco-social tax reform (German version)

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Measures during the COVID-19-crisis in 2020 effectively supported household incomes (German version)

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Budgetary Outlook 2020 and 2021 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council

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Fiscal policy dimension of carbon emission targets and policy pptions for austria (German version)

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First assessment of the budgetary impact of the COVID-19 measures currently adopted by Parliament, including the recovery plan (German version)

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Sustainability Reports of International Independent Fiscal Institutions in Comparison (German version)

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Update: Assessment of budgetary effects of COVID-19 pandemic in Austria

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First assessment of budgetary effects of COVID-19 pandemic in Austria (German version)

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Estimation of budgetary impact based on National Council decision´s of 2nd and 3rd July and 19th September 2019 (German version)

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A first assessment of the budgetary effects of the tax reform 2019/20 and its counterfinancing measures (German version)

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Fiscal compact fully implemented in Austria according to European Commission (German version)

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Fiscal equalization scheme 2017 to 2021: many changes but no substantial regime shift (German version)

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Summary of Fiscal Advisory Council workshop on fiscal rules for provinces and municipalities in Austria: possibilities and limitations (German version)

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The Austrian banking support program and its implications for public finances (German version)

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Implementation of the correction mechanism to secure the Austrian MTO (German version)

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Impact of the 2015/2016 tax reform– status quo (German version)

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Summary of the Fiscal Advisory Council workshop on federalism reform in Austria: tax autonomy as a core element? (German version)

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Transmission channels of country ratings and the impact of Austria´s recent downgrade to AA+ by Fitch (German version)

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