The Great Recession that started in 2008 affected Sweden no less than most other OECD
countries, and the fall in Swedish GDP between 2008 and 2009 was the largest recorded …

The beginning of the 1990s witnessed a severe recession in Western Europe. The climax
was the European currency crisis in the autumn of 1992 and summer of 1993. The recession …

Like other EU countries, Sweden was affected negatively by the global financial crisis, in
terms of GDP decline and unemployment growth. The fall in Swedish GDP growth in 2008 …

Finland's depression A tale of bad luck and bad policies In the 1990s, Finland underwent a
deep depression as its GDP dropped about 14% and unemployment rose from 3 to almost …

As a small, export-oriented economy strongly exposed to international competition, Sweden
was extremely hard hit by the 2008 global financial crisis. The severe drop in aggregate …

This report has been commissioned by the OECD Economics Department. The purpose of
the report is to discuss issues related to the consequences for Sweden of the global …

International comparisons of income inequality suggest that Sweden has one of the most
equal distributions of income in the world (OECD 2008; Brandolini and Smeeding 2009; …

In the mid-2000s, my colleague Harald Niklasson and I published an article,'The Swedish
Model in Turbulent Times', which retraced the main developments of the Swedish model …

Finland and Sweden experienced an intense boom in the late 1980s, followed by a sharp
contraction in the early 1990s and an exceptionally long recovery roughly until the turn of the …

The new economic-policy regime in Sweden in the 1990s included deregulation, central-
bank independence, inflation targets and fiscal rules but also active labour market policy …