Austrian Banking Package: Costs May Reach € 30bn

Politics ♦ Published: October 1, 2013; 06:45 ♦ (Vindobona)

In total, the burden for Austrian taxpayers is expected to reach up to 10% of GDP.

Austrian Banking Package: Costs May Reach € 30bn / Picture: © Vindobona.org

The rescue of the Austrian problem banks will prove expensive for Austrian taxpayers. Until now, the projected total costs came at € 20bn. The economist Franz Hahn (WIFO, Austrian Institute of Economic Research) expects that the initial assumptions are too optimistic. “The history of big bank crisis show that 10% of a country´s GDP are not unrealistic.”

The main problems…