Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259947 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2007:15
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
This paper studies empirical linkages between cycles and trends in freight transportation activity and real economic activity in Sweden. We find that cycles in freight transportation are highly contemporaneously correlated with cycles in economic variables over both the short run and the medium run. The pattern of long run growth in freight transportation activity coincides with growth in economic variables during long periods, but there are also periods with substantial differences. Furthermore, we observe and explain a large decline in trend growth in tonne-kilometres by road from the mid-nineties and onwards.
Subjects: 
freight transportation
business cycles
trend growth
decoupling
efficiency
JEL: 
C19
E29
L92
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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