IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/wirtsc/v95y2015i5p342-346.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Die österreichische Infrastrukturgesellschaft ASFINAG als verkehrspolitisches Modell

Author

Listed:
  • Franz Nauschnigg

Abstract

The EU is currently debating how to increase investment for improved growth and employment. EU Commission President Juncker has announced an investment plan of more than €315 bn. Public sector investments in the EU are hampered by high debt and deficits and the restrictions of the Stability and Growth Pact. The Austrian ASFINAG finances and operates the Austrian highway system and has improved it significantly through massive investments in the last two decades. Although it is state-owned and has a state guarantee for its debt, which allows cheap financing, it is a private company that belongs to the private sector, and it can cover its costs through user fees. This ASFINAG model, which makes use of the flexibility in the Stability and Growth Pact, could be used to increase infrastructure investments in the EU significantly. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Suggested Citation

  • Franz Nauschnigg, 2015. "Die österreichische Infrastrukturgesellschaft ASFINAG als verkehrspolitisches Modell," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 95(5), pages 342-346, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:wirtsc:v:95:y:2015:i:5:p:342-346
    DOI: 10.1007/s10273-015-1829-4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s10273-015-1829-4
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s10273-015-1829-4?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Franz Nauschnigg, 2022. "Inflation bekämpfen durch Senkung der Monopolrenten [Fighting Inflation Through Lowering of Monopoly Rents]," Wirtschaftsdienst, Springer;ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 102(6), pages 446-448, June.
    2. Philipp Heimberger, 2017. "Die Struktur der österreichischen Staatsausgaben im europäischen Ländervergleich," Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft - WuG, Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien, Abteilung Wirtschaftswissenschaft und Statistik, vol. 43(4), pages 569-586.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    E22; H41; R48;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • R48 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - Government Pricing and Policy

    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:spr:wirtsc:v:95:y:2015:i:5:p:342-346. 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.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using 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: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    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.