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Austria's Economy Threatens to Fall Into Stagflation

Lifestyle & Travel ♦ Published: October 10, 2022; 11:10 ♦ (Vindobona)
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After the recovery of the national economy in the previous year as well as in the first half of 2022, the Economic Research Institute and the Institute for Advanced Studies see Austria in a downturn phase. Stagflation is looming next year.

Austria's economy is heading for stagflation for the first time since the 1970s. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Herbert Ortner, Vienna, Austria / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

The Austrian economy, repeatedly throttled by many crises, finally experienced a strong expansion at the beginning of the year. However, this trend could not be sustained. After the strong expansion in H1 2022, the Austrian economy is now in a downturn phase. The economic slowdown affects all value-added sectors.

"Due to its higher natural gas intensity, rationing as a result of possible supply shortages is likely to hit the German economy harder than the Austrian economy," says Christian Glocker, one of the authors of the current WIFO forecast, which warns of potential stagflation in the Austrian economy.

In H1 2022, the Austrian economy was still in a phase of boom, which had already started in autumn 2020. Now, however, a downturn is setting in, which will be strong according to leading indicators. This is likely to bring the economic upswing of the last two years to an abrupt end.

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The widespread lifting of the COVID-19 measures by the authorities has temporarily given a strong boost to the services sector and especially to private consumption. This effect is now coming to an end. Now the dampening influences of the international environment will have a stronger impact on the overall economy.

On the one hand, the weakening of the global economy is clouding the outlook for domestic goods exports and thus for industry and investment. On the other hand, the marked increase in world market prices for raw materials, energy and intermediate goods represents a negative terms-of-trade shock.

It keeps domestic price inflation high and causes real income losses that dampen private consumption. However, government consumption support spending counteracts this.Under these conditions, Austria's economy will still expand by 4.8% in 2022 and thus grow more strongly than in the previous year (2021 +4.6%).

In addition to moderate industrial activity, services in particular will contribute to overall economic growth in 2022. In the following year, however, the momentum is likely to slow down considerably (2023 +0.2%).

In 2022, the economy still leads to a favourable development on the labour market. In addition to a significant increase in employment (+2.7%), unemployment is expected to fall despite an expansion in labour supply ( 19.6% compared to the previous year).

For 2023, on the other hand, only a weak increase in employment (+0.5%) and an increase in the unemployment rate to 6.7% are expected (2022: 6.4%).

The forecast flattening of economic momentum will only have a slow impact on prices. The inflation rate according to the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) will rise to 8.4% in 2022 (2021: 2.8%).

In 2023, inflation will weaken slightly to 6.6%, but it will remain strong compared to the long-term average. Thus, high inflation and at the same time stagnation of the real economy are expected for 2023. Austria is thus heading for stagflation for the first time since the 1970s.

WIFO Austrian Institute of Economic Research

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