Jan Tore Klovland

E-mail:

Jan.Klovland@nhh.no

Telephone:

+ 47 55 959 274

Fax:

+47 55 959543

Title:

Professor

Nationality:

Norwegian

Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English

Teaching areas:

Undergraduate:

Macroeconomics

Master:

Money and banking, business cycles, international finance

Doctoral courses:

International macroeconomics

Research:

Macroeconomics, Economic history

Research in progress:

• 'A repeat sailings index of ocean freight rates for the 1850s’, Discussion Paper SAM 40 2006, Department of Economics, NHH.

• ’A great hundred years of timber freights, 1757-1876’, forthcoming Research in Maritime History.
• ‘New series for agricultural prices in London, 1770-1914’,  (with Peter M. Solar), Economic History Review, 64, 2011, 72-87.
• ‘Wage formation and bargaining power during the Great Depression’, (with Gunnar Bårdsen and Jurgen A. Doornik), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 112, 2010, 211-233.
• 'New evidence on the causes of the fluctuations in ocean freight rates in the 1850s’,  Explorations in Economic History, 46 (2009) 266-284. 
• 'The construction of ocean freight rate indices for the mid-nineteenth century’, International Journal of Maritime History, 20, 2008, 1-26. 
• 'Commodity market integration 1850-1913: Evidence from Britain and Germany', European Review of Economic History, 9, 2005, 163-197.
• 'Historical Monetary Statistics for Norway 1819-2003', Norges Bank Occasional Papers No. 35, Oslo 2004. (Coauthors: Øyvind Eitrheim and Jan F. Qvigstad).
• Shaken or stirred? Financial deregulation and the monetary transmission mechanism in Norway. (With Gunnar Bårdsen). Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 102, 2000, 563-583
• Monetary policy and business cycles in the interwar years: The Scandinavian experience, European Review of Economic History 2, 1998, 309-344.
• A reassessment of the United Kingdom business cycle chronology, pp 49-90 in T.J.O. Dick (ed.), Business cycles since 1820: New international perspectives from historical evicence, Cheltenham, 1998
• Pitfalls in the estimation of the yield on British Consols, 1850-1914, Journal of Economic History, 54, 1994, 164-187.
• Zooming in on Sauerbeck: Monthly wholesale prices in Britain 1845-1890, Explorations in Economic History, 30, 1993, 195-228.
• The demand for money in the United Kingdom, 1875-1913, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 49, 1987, 251-271.
• A quantitative reassessment of the purchasing power parity hypothesis: Some evidence from Norway and the United Kingdom, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2, 1987, 309-333. (With Hali J. Edison.)
• The demand for money in secular perspective: The case of Norway, 1867-1980, European Economic Review, 22, 1983, 193-218.
• The stability of the demand for money in the interwar years: The case of Norway 1925-39, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 14, 1982, 252-264.

Visiting professor/visiting scholar:

University of Warwick 1984/85

 Other interests/involvements:

Special advisor to Norges Bank, Research Department.