During the last decades, international trade flows of the industrialised countries became more and more intra-industry. At the same time, employment perspectives particularly of the low skilled by tendency deteriorated in these countries. This phenomenon is often traced back to the fact that...

Generally, trade flows of commodities are determined on the basis of the principle of comparative advantage in a free trade system. The objectives of this study are to evaluate factors affecting the export flows and to provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of trade enhancing and...

Previous research that investigated the response of Swedish trade balance to currency depreciation either used trade data between Sweden and rest of the world or between Sweden and her major trading partner. They did not find any long-run significant impact of depreciation on Swedish trade...