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Invandringspolitik för cirkulär migration (2009:9) |
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 Author: Per Lundborg*
Circular migration has become a central concept for the future EU migration policy, implying that migrants should be encouraged to move repeatedly between the country of origin and the host country. The basic purpose is to utilise international labour mobility to make both countries’ economies more efficient. The author discusses problems of specific migration policies to stimulate mobility based on a review of the relevant literature.
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The Impact of the Euro on International Trade and Investment (2009:8) |
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 Author: Harry Flam
The common currency, the euro, and the common monetary policy were introduced in the EU in 1999 to improve the internal market, under the slogan “One Market, One Money”. It was expected that the common currency would promote more trade and investment between the countries that joined the European currency union.
In the report The Impact of the Euro on International Trade and Investment: A Survey of Theory and Empirical Evidence, Professor Harry Flam evaluates the studies that have estimated the effect of the euro on trade and foreign direct investments (FDI) in the EU. Flam concludes that trade between the euro countries is higher by 10 to 30 %, the most likely explanation being the complete elimination of nominal exchange rate uncertainty. Flam also concludes that the euro has had a positive impact on FDI between euro countries as well as on FDI from non-euro countries, but notes that this conclusion is less certain.
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Aggregate and Regional Business Cycle Synchronisation in the Nordic Countries (2009:7) |
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 Authors: Anna Larsson, Nevena Gaco and Henrik Sikström
In the wake of the economic and financial crisis, a Swedish membership to the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has returned to the domestic political agenda. Although the issue has been politically dead since the referendum on the euro in 2003, public opinion in support of EMU has increased the past year as the Swedish krona has continued to depreciate. During the run-up to the Swedish referendum of the euro six years ago, the question of how asymmetric shocks would affect member states became one of the most debated topics amongst scholars.
The report Aggregate and Regional Business Cycle Synchronisation in the Nordic Countries revisit this issue by studying aggregate and regional business cycle asymmetries in the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The authors find, among other things, that Denmark and Finland have become more synchronous relative to the euro area since 1992, while no such trend is found in the case of Sweden. Norway, on the other hand, displays tendencies to become increasingly asymmetric relative to the euro area during the same time period.
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