Increasing Foreign Supply of Intermediates and Less Reliance on Domestic Resources: The Production Structure of the Swedish Economy, 1957-1980

Goran Ostblom

Empirical Economics, 1993, vol. 18, issue 3, 500 pages

Abstract: Historical comparisons of the Swedish production structure is undertaken in this paper. The total series of Swedish input-output data is, for the first time, exploited within the Leontief open static model and by use of the method of triangulation. Reliance on foreign supply of intermediates increased in the Swedish economy during the post-war period and the traditional dominance of production chains based on iron ores, forests and hydropower in the domestic supply of intermediates reduced in favour of chemical products and services. Also, labor employment declined significantly relative to the employment of capital in production. Some implications for the effects of aggregate economic policy are discussed.

Date: 1993
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