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Tariff protection in Sweden 1885–1914
(2005)
This paper presents disaggregated estimates of nominal and effective rates of tariff protection for Sweden 1885–1914. In a methodological part of the article I argue that the proper way to measure tariff protection is an ...
The income distributional consequences of agrarian tariffs in Sweden on the eve of World War I
(2006)
After 1870 Swedish agriculture was transformed in the direction of more animal husbandry. Small farmers in particular specialized in animal produce. Yet, agricultural protectionism primarily served the interest of large ...
Structural Change in the Swedish economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century – The role of import substitution and export demand
(2007-02-21)
The paper presents input-output tables for the Swedish economy for 1885,
1898 and 1913. These tables are used to explore structural change and to decompose
Swedish economic growth in 1885–1898 and 1898–1913 into different ...
Protectionism, agricultural prices and relative factor incomes: Sweden’s wage-rental ratio, 1877-1926
(2006)
Trends in wage-rental ratios have figured prominently in the recent literature
on factor price convergence and globalisation in the late nineteenth century. In that
literature Sweden has been described as a free trade ...