Blar i Department of Economics på forfatter "Grytten, Ola Honningdal"
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A continuous consumer price index for Norway 1492-2017
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (DP SAM;26/2018, Working paper, 2018-11)This manuscript presents a new combined annual cost of living and consumer price index for Norway covering the period 1492-2017. When previous Norwegian historical consumer price indices partly were constructed on the basis ... -
A long term view on the short term co-movement of output and prices in a small open economy
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Hunnes, Arngrim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-02)One assumption behind inflation targeting as objective for monetary policy is that inflation rates in the short run to some extent reflect output cycles. The present paper investigates the historical co-movements of output ... -
A Long Term View on the Short Term Co-movement of Output and Prices in a Small Open Economy
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Hunnes, Arngrim (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-02)One assumption behind inflation targeting as objective for monetary policy is that inflation rates in the short run to some extent reflect output cycles. The present paper investigates the historical co-movements of output ... -
A chronology of financial crises for Norway
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Hunnes, Arngrim (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2010-05)The paper offers a chronology of financial crises in Norway from her independence in 1814 till present times. Firstly, business cycles, covering almost two hundred years of economic history are mapped. These reveal years ... -
Consumer price indices for the Scandinavian countries 1815-1913
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-07)The present article examines consumer price development in the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, 1815-1913. A consumer price index (CPI) is constructed for Norway. It is based on consumer prices ... -
Convergence between the Baltic and the Nordic economies: Some reflections based on new data for the Baltic countries
Bruno, Lars Christian; Grytten, Ola Honningdal (DP SAM;05/2024, Working paper, 2024-04-18)This short paper uses recent estimates of GDP per capita for the Baltic countries for the 1919-2020(22) period to test for convergence between the Baltic and the Nordic economies. Drawing from the methodology used in Bernard ... -
Currency gifts, convergence and divergence in two neighbouring economies : draft
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Lindmark, Magnus (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-01)Currency gifts have proven to be a mixed blessing, as positive income shocks are often followed by financial problems and slow economic growth rates. Norway has twice been granted significant currency gifts: Firstly, ... -
Do prices reflect short-term output fluctuations? : empirical evidence from a small open raw material based economy
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Hunnes, Arngrim (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-01)Within the framework of Keynesian economic theory it is widely taken for granted that short term output fluctuations are mirrored in corresponding fluctuations in prices. By examining data on prices and output for a small ... -
Economic growth and purchasing power parities in the Nordic countries 1830-1910
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-07)The present paper examines new estimates of GDP for the five Nordic countries 1830-1910 in terms of economic growth and purchasing power parities. It concludes that significant economic growth took place during the period. ... -
Energy Intensity and the Environmental Kuznets Curve
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Lindmark, Magnus; Minde, Kjell Bjørn (DP SAM;11/2020, Working paper, 2020-07)During the last decades several scholars have argued that environmental degradation first increases in initial phases of economic growth, and thereafter declines as economic growth enters a certain level in developed ... -
Evidence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve in Emerging Eastern European Economies
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Koilo, Viktoriia (DP SAM;11/2019, Working paper, 2019-05)This study aims to investigate the relationship of economic development, measured as economic growth, energy use, trade and foreign direct investment one the one hand and environmental degradation (carbon dioxide (hereafter ... -
Family stability and labor market gender convergence
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Hunnes, Arngrim (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-04)The present paper examines the historical development in the structure of the family in terms of marriage, divorce, fertility and labor 1886-2007 in order to map quantitative changes. The paper draws new information from ... -
Financial Instability and Banking Crises in a small open economy
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (SAM DP;18/2021, Working paper, 2021-11)The present paper seeks to investigate the importance of financial instability during four banking crises, with focus on the small open economy of Norway. The crises elaborated on are the Post First world war crisis of the ... -
Financial instability, institutional development and economic crisis in Eastern Europe
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Koilo, Viktoriia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019) -
Generational links between entrepreneurship, management and puritanism
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Minde, Kjell Bjørn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This paper deals with relationships between puritanism, management and entrepreneurship. As this is an on-going debate among economic historians, it focuses on the period from the early 1800s until present times, where ... -
Growth in public finances as tool for control : Norwegian development 1850-1950
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Discussion paper;15/2014, Working paper, 2014-05)By drawing on information from public accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth century the present paper aims at mapping the development of key financial indicators for the Norwegian central government sector. It ... -
Maritime Financial Instability and Supply Chain Management Effects
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Koilo, Viktoriia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The paper investigates the offshore crisis 2015–2017 and its impact on central international offshore oil and gas related maritime cluster, the Blue Maritime Cluster, located at the North-Western coast of Norway. This ... -
Norwegian GDP by industry 1830-1930
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Discussion paper;16/15, Working paper, 2015-08)The present paper offers new knowledge of historical national accounting in Norway in several ways. Firstly, a new and novel set of annual gross domestic product series by industry are presented for the period 1830‐1930. ... -
Norwegian policy response to the international economic disintegration during the inter-war years
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-12) -
Offshore Industries as Growth Sector: The Norwegian Case
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Koilo, Viktoriia (SAM DP;02/2023, Working paper, 2023-03)Writers on Norwegian economic history often claim that marine and maritime industries, i.e., the offshore sector, played a major role for value creation in the Norwegian economy for centuries. However, little has been done ...