Browsing Department of Economics by Author "Grytten, Ola Honningdal"
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Price stability and inflation persistence during the international gold standard : the Scandinavian case
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Hunnes, Arngrim (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-06)In the 1870s the three Scandinavian countries Denmark, Norway and Sweden formed the Scandinavian Currency Union. Both the adoption of gold and the monetary union were supposed to lead to price stability in and between ... -
Public finances, governance control and economic growth: a macroeconomic history approach
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The size of the public sector is an important tool in public governance. Public sector size may fuel both economic growth and political influence over the economy. By compiling and processing data from different sources ... -
Public policy, resource rent and ethics: The case of the Norwegian petroleum industry
Hunnes, John A.; Grytten, Ola Honningdal (DP SAM;12/2021, Working paper, 2021-05)The present paper seeks to explain how ethics and values in public policy can be result of different historical contingencies. Specifically, it explains the accomplishment of petroleum resource management in Norway. The ... -
Puritan Motivation for Serial Entrepreneurship: The Haugean Example
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (DP SAM;12/2020, Working paper, 2020-08)It is well known that protestant and puritan environments historically have fostered entrepreneurs. This paper looks at serial entrepreneurship which took place in Norway in the 19th century in networks led by the puritan ... -
The Blue Maritime Cluster Crisis: Financial Instability and Supply Chain Management Effects
Koilo, Viktoriia; Grytten, Ola Honningdal (DP SAM;15/2019, Working paper, 2019-08)The present paper investigates the offshore crisis 2015-2017 and its impact on one of the most complete maritime clusters, more precise the Blue Maritime Cluster, located at Møre og Romsdal at the North Western Coast of ... -
The Financial Instability Hypothesis and the Financial Crisis in Eastern European Emerging Economies
Grytten, Ola Honningdal; Koilo, Viktoriia (DP SAM;08/2019, Working paper, 2019-04)The present paper applies the financial instability hypothesis in order to explain the financial crises of 2008-2010 in eleven emerging Eastern European economies Also, it seeks to map if institutional frameworks of these ... -
The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism the Haugian way
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Discussion paper;1/2012, Working paper, 2012-02)On the basis of availabale sources the present paper seeks to map entrepreneural industrial activities the Norwegian puritan revivalist Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771- 1824) was involved in and quantify his financial activities. ... -
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: Entrepreneurship of the Norwegian Puritan Leader Hans Nielsen Hauge.
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)The present paper deals with Max Webers hypothesis on the linkage between protestant ethics and the development of capitalism and entreprenaurship. It does so by study industrial entrepreneurship the great Norwegian puritan ... -
Two centuries of economic growth: Norwegian GDP 1816-2020
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (DP SAM;10/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)Existing historical GDP series for Norway do not always coincide with our historical knowledge of the economic development. This is to a large extent a result of lack of calculations from the production side and in addition ... -
The Wealth of a Nation: Norways Road to Prosperity
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (DP SAM;17/2020, Working paper, 2020-09)The present paper discusses Norway’s way to prosperity during the two last centuries. The main reason for its wealth seems to have been the ability to meet international demand by utilizing its rich natural resources, ... -
Weber revisited: A literature review on the possible Link between Protestantism, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (DP SAM;08/2020, Working paper, 2020-06)The present paper looks at the Weber-Tawney thesis on the positive link between Protestant ethic and economic growth. Both scholars observed that Protestant areas in the Western world seemed to gain faster and more wealth ... -
What money can buy? : three centuries of Norwegian wage and price development
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-10)On the basis of newly utilized data from one of the largest manual historical archives on wages and prices internationally and unpublished data from Statistics Norway this article offers new wage and price series for ... -
Why was the Great Depression not so great in the Nordic countries? : economic policy and unemployment
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-08)The present paper seeks to examine why the Nordic countries performed better than most other Western countries during the 1930s, when they at the same time experienced high unemployment levels. The conclusions drawn here ... -
Økonomisk-demografiske rammebetingelser for Frelsesarmeens gjennombrudd i Norge
Grytten, Ola Honningdal (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The paper investigates a possible relationship between the rapid growth of The Salvation Army and economic-demographic trends around its establishment period in Norway during the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...