En europeisk valutaunion eller en självständig penningpolitik? En tvillingstudie mellan Sverige och Finland om den ekonomiska utvecklingen innan och efter finanskrisen

Sammanfattning: The subject of discussion regards whether Finland had potential trade advantages compared to Sweden before the financial crisis by having Euro as their currency compared to the Swedish Krona. Likewise if Swedish economy recovered faster than the Finnish during the financial crisis due to an independent monetary policy. An introduction of the general macroeconomical variables is made to give the reader an understanding of the similarities between the two countries. The statistics is divided into different trade sectors such as engineering, manufacturing and timber industry. But also exports within the euro zone, within EU zone and export outside the EU zone is examined. The main conclusion is that there is no statistical evidence that Finland should have been better off compared to Sweden during the period before the financial crisis. However, during the financial crisis there is statistical evidence that Swedish export and trade within the studied fields recovered faster than the Finnish equivalent.