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Foreign Direct Investment and Politics: The Swedish Model

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  • Blomström, Magnus

    (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics)

  • Kokko, Ari

    (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics)

Abstract

Sweden is home to remarkably many large, prosperous multinationals. We argue that this is partly the result of industrial policies that have been biased in favor of large firms, and an institutional setting where regulations and controls have facilitated investment abroad by Swedish firms, while impeding foreign direct investment in sweden. A particularly important feature of the institutional environment is that Swedish labor unions have supported Swedish investment abroad, but opposed foreign investment in Sweden. The paper outlines the development of Swedish foreign investment policies, describes the traditional Swedish model of industrial policy, and discusses the attitudes of the Swedish labor movement. The implications for long run growth of the Swedish industrial policy are also discussed. We argue that the large multinationals have been supported at the expense of small and medium sized firms, and that the non-multinational sector is therefore less dynamic in Sweden than in many other countries.

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  • Blomström, Magnus & Kokko, Ari, 1995. "Foreign Direct Investment and Politics: The Swedish Model," SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 66, Stockholm School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhs:hastef:0066
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    1. Saïd Hanchane & Abdouni Abdeljabbar, 2004. "La dynamique de la croissance économique et de l'ouverture dans les pays en voie de développement : quelques investigations empiriques à partir des données de Panel," Working Papers halshs-00083720, HAL.
    2. bouoiyour, jamal & El Mouhoub, Mouhoud & Hanchane, Hichame, 2008. "Investissements directs étrangers et croissance économique : Estimation d’un modèle à erreurs composées [Foreign direct investment and economic growth: Estimation of error component model]," MPRA Paper 38208, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Kokko, Ari, 2006. "The Home Country Effects Of Fdi In Developed Economies," EIJS Working Paper Series 225, Stockholm School of Economics, The European Institute of Japanese Studies.
    4. Helga Kristjánsdóttir, 2005. "Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Iceland," CAM Working Papers 2005-15, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. Centre for Applied Microeconometrics.
    5. repec:pra:mprapa:38207 is not listed on IDEAS

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    Keywords

    FDI; economic policy; Sweden;
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    JEL classification:

    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects

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