This paper reports an attempt to explain changes in the industrial pattern of relative international competitiveness and specializ ation in the Swedish manufacturing industry during the period 1969-84 . The author evaluates the role of R&D expenditure in this process. R elative international...

When trade is heavily restricted, a small country may show a "false" comparative disadvantage in differentiated products at an early stage in the life cycle, because firms are confined to a small domestic market. An analysis of changes in the pattern of trade between Sweden and the EC after the...