Austria's Quality as a Business Location in the Executive Opinion Survey 2021

The Executive Opinion Survey (EOS) is an international survey on the quality of business locations conducted by the World Economic Forum. In Austria, it was last conducted in cooperation with WIFO from the end of April to the end of June 2021. This paper summarises the main findings along four dimensions: public institutions, public goods, markets and enterprises. To determine the position, the results for Austria are compared with the average values of three groups of countries that are particularly relevant for Austria. Austria proves to be an attractive location overall, but falls short of the average for a comparison group of small open economies in the EU with respect to a number of indicators.