Measuring trends and cycles in industrial production in Norway 1896-1948

Jan Tore Klovland
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Jan Tore Klovland: Norwegian School of Economics and Norges Bank

No 2015/18, Working Paper from Norges Bank

Abstract: This paper presents new indices for industrial production in Norway covering the years 1896-1948. Separate annual and monthly indices of gross output and labour productivity are computed for 45 manufacturing and mining industries, using annually updated weights based on value added at factor cost. The new industrial production index shows somewhat stronger growth of output in the years before WWI and, in particular, in the 1930s, than the existing index published by Statistics Norway. The new monthly data set also provides a basis for identifying a business cycle chronology for Norway in the first half of the twentieth century.

Keywords: Industrial production; business cycles; labour productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 N64 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2015-12-08
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