Evaluation of Industrial Policy--The Case of the Swedish Textile and Clothing Industry

Sverker Alange and Staffan Jacobsson

Small Business Economics, 1994, vol. 6, issue 6, 465-75

Abstract: This paper evaluates the Swedish industrial policy for the textile and clothing industry and attempts to provide an interview-based method for assessing the effects of state intervention. The Swedish industrial policy, in the period 1970-1990, was general and defensive in character. In the majority of firms interviewed, government policy had either no effect at all on firm behavior or where effects were found there were no underlying market imperfections. Only in a minority of firms was it found that the policy alleviated market imperfections and changed firms' investment behavior in a way which was judged to be beneficial for the firms' competitiveness. Therefore, the Swedish industrial policy for the textile and clothing industry was associated with very substantial inefficiencies in the use of sizeable resources. Copyright 1994 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1994
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