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Reinterpretation of economic history in the Baltic countries, 30 years after independence Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Anu Mai Köll
What has happened to the economic history in and about the three Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania after independence in 1991? The survey includes problem areas researched, the reinter...
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Between Denmark and Detroit: Ford Motor Company A/S and the transformation of Fordism 1919–1966 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Alexandra L. Cermeño
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Relieving famine. Northern Sweden (Västerbotten) between state, market, and civil society during the 1860s Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Henrik Forsberg, Magnus Bohman
In 1867–1868 northern Sweden suffered from a famine that has not gained much scholarly interest. Here we study how this famine was relieved in Västerbotten county. We use unique regional and local ...
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Finding common ground: rebuilding the Scandinavian Monetary Union in the interwar years Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Gjermund Forfang Rongved
The Scandinavian Monetary Union (SMU) of Denmark, Sweden and Norway has been labelled ‘the most successful of the pre-World War I monetary unions’. It functioned smoothly throughout the first era o...
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A dissimulated trade: Northern European timber merchants in Seville (1574–1598) Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-11-07 A. Jorge Aguilera-López
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Cash flow: the businesses of menstruation Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Matleena Frisk
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Long-run evolution of income inequality in the Nordic countries Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Rolf Aaberge, Erik Bengtsson
This paper surveys Nordic historic studies on the distribution of income to highlight similarities and differences between Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden in the evolution of income concentrat...
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Editorial Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Erik Lakomaa, Svante Prado
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 71, No. 3, 2023)
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Lithuanian economy, 1919–1940: stagnant but resilient. The first inter-war GDP time-series estimates and their implications Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Adomas Klimantas
This paper presents the first attempt to estimate the GDP time series for inter-war Lithuania, tracking the country's annual performance from 1919 until its incorporation into the USSR in 1940, and...
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English commercial ascendancy and the growth in competition for Baltic markets, 1650–1700 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Adam Grimshaw
ABSTRACT From the 1650s the expansion of English interests in the Baltic fostered more competition for access to commercial markets. A desire from Sweden to meet its own commercial goals also led to a greater level of competition for shipping. An increasing association between England and Sweden brought about the greatest commercial shift in Baltic commerce during that century. Building on research
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Old-age mortality and social class in northern Norway in the first half of the twentieth century Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Petja Lyn Langholz, Hilde Leikny Sommerseth
ABSTRACT The number of studies on social inequality in mortality in Norway before 1960 is limited and they often focus on early life outcomes. Little is known about socioeconomic differences in old-age mortality before the emergence of the welfare state. Linked census and church records from the Historical Population Register of Norway were used to study a sample of 10,457 men and women born 1841–1870
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Longer, broader, deeper, and more personal – the renewal of labour history in the Nordic countries Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Nina Trige Andersen, Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir, Silke Neunsinger, Pete Pesonen, Vilhelm Vilhelmsson, Hanne Østhus
ABSTRACT This article deals with the recent developments of labour history in and about the Nordic countries. We identify patterns, problems and possibilities in these recent developments in the field – roughly within the last two decades. Our main source of analysis is the research presented and exchanged in the Nordic labour history journals, the Nordic Labour History Network, the labour history
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Taxation and inequality: A revisionary study of changing income inequality in Finland, 1961–2005 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Saska Heino
ABSTRACT Income inequality rose rapidly in Finland in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The prevailing discourse attributes this increase to a major tax reform in 1993. However, using time-series analysis and a novel profitability–pay-out metric, the present article argues that a correlation exists between profitability and the income share of the top 1 percent, the latter having been a driver of inequality
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Kylmästi laskeva mies: Talousvaikuttaja Risto Rytin elämä [Coldly counting man: the life of economic policymaker Risto Ryti] Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Niklas Jensen-Eriksen
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Liv i rörelse: Göteborgs befolkning och arbetsmarknad 1900–1950 [Life courses and mobility: Gothenburg’s population and labour market 1900–1950] Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Kristina Lilja
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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A brief history of equality Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Anton Svensson
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Income inequality in the Duchy of Warsaw (1810/11) Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Marcin Wroński
In this paper we use administrative tabulations from occupation-based income tax (class tax) to estimate income inequality in the Duchy of Warsaw. We start off by estimating income inequality in th...
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Income inequality in an industrial city during the great levelling: micro level evidence from malmö, 1900–1950 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Anton Svensson, Erik Bengtsson
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the debate on historical income inequality, and especially on the decrease in inequality found in industrialised countries during the first half of the twentieth century. We use new archival individual – and household-level data for taxpayers in Sweden's third-largest city, Malmö, from 1900 to 1950. Previous research has established that Sweden had a distinctive downturn
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A Nordic model of gender and military work? Labour demand, gender equality and women’s integration in the armed forces of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Anders Ahlbäck, Fia Sundevall, Johanna Hjertquist
This article traces the political process towards full formal integration of women in the military professions in Scandinavia and Finland, investigating the shifting roles played by military labour...
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Review of ‘En kort introduksjon til Norge på 1800-tallet’ (A short introduction to Norway during the 19th century) Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Gerda Bonderup
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 71, No. 2, 2023)
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Markedsvendningen: Nyliberalismens historie i Norge Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-11-06 Elisabeth Lindberg
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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The world’s most egalitarian country? ‘Världens jämlikaste land?’ Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Kalle Moene
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 71, No. 2, 2023)
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On the eve of the disaster. State and economy of Russia in 1914–1917 [V preddverii katastrofy. Gosudarstvo i ekonomika Rossii v 1914–1917 godah] Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-10-21 Valeria Peshko
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 72, No. 1, 2024)
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Vejen til velstand: Marked, stat og utopi, Vol. II: Hvorvor blev Danmark rigt – og ikke rigere? Tiden 1850–1930 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Markus Lampe
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Husbanken og boligpolitikken 1996–2021. En jubileumsbok [The housing bank and the housing policies – an anniversary book] Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Ola Innset
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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Bondesamfunn og bondeopposisjon på Agder: I overgangen mellom seinmiddelalder og tidlig nytid ca. 1480–1615 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Erik Bengtsson
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 71, No. 1, 2023)
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Kolonisterne – kartoffeltyskerne i Gl. Tønder Amt [The colonists – potato Germans in Old Tønder Amt] Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Nina Boberg-Fazlic
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 72, No. 1, 2024)
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Civilians and military supply in early modern Finland Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Sergio Tonatiuh Serrano Hernandez
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 71, No. 2, 2023)
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Natural resources and divergence. A comparison of Andean and Nordic trajectories Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Simon Ville
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 71, No. 2, 2023)
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Unnecessary radicalism: the limits of economic ideas in political thinking Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Elisabeth Lindberg
This article analyses late 1960s’ and early 1970s’ policy debate on issues concerning balance of payments in Sweden. Part of this debate was the question of fiscal austerity as a tool to achieve ex...
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Running out of time: using job ads to analyse the demand for messengers in the twentieth century Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Peter Gladoić Håkansson, Tobias Karlsson, Matti La Mela
Youth labour remained important well into the twentieth century, although it is often elusive in traditional sources. In this article, we investigate messengers – a category of occupational titles,...
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Mortality transition in the interwar Baltic states: findings from cross-country comparison of new life tables Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Zenonas Norkus, Domantas Jasilionis, Ola Honningdal Grytten, Ilmārs Mežs, Martin Klesment
This paper is the first comparative analysis of mortality transition, as part of the demographic transition, in all the three Baltic countries during the interwar period. We address the following r...
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Gender and economic history in the Nordic countries Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-06-19 Klara Arnberg, Eirinn Larsen, Ann-Catrin Östman
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2022)
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Women and wealth in Sweden: the case of Uppsala, 1850–1910 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Matteo Pompermaier
In the Swedish context, fairly little is known about the variation in the level and composition of female wealth over the long term. This paper aims to contribute to filling this gap, emphasising t...
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Market growth, coordination problems and control – the timing of enclosures in East Central Sweden 1807–1892 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Viktor Persarvet, Marja Erikson, Mats Morell
The enclosure movement was a significant element of the agricultural revolution in Sweden. Legislation from 1749 onwards, opened up for Storskifte, which reduced the number of plots per owner, but ...
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Road to unity? Nordic economic convergence in the long run Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Lars Bruno, Jari Eloranta, Jari Ojala, Jaakko Pehkonen
This study examines Nordic economic convergence from the sixteenth to twentieth century respective of the economic leaders, in effect the UK before 1914 and USA thereafter. The paper uses a novel a...
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Survey article on Nordic financialisation in the long run Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Lars Ahnland
Financialisation has become a new buzz word in social sciences, but, although some of the earliest usages of the concept can be found with economic historians, the recent fad has largely been ignor...
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En kort introduksjon til Norge på 1900-tallet. Forskjell og fellesskap [A brief introduction to Norway in the 20th century. Difference and community] Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Dunja Blažević
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 71, No. 3, 2023)
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Trap Denmark: Tønder, Aabenraa, Sønderborg (vol 17) Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Christian Vedel
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 72, No. 1, 2024)
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Med skibet i kroppen. Mennesker og maritimt miljø i Det sydfynske Øhav 1750–1950 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Anders Ravn Sørensen
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 71, No. 3, 2023)
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Iron and the transformation of society. Reflexion of Viking age metallurgy Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Martin Hansson
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 71, No. 3, 2023)
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Det villrådiga samhället. Kungliga Vetenskapsakademiens politiska och ekonomiska ideologi, 1739–1792 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Charlotta Wolff
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 71, No. 1, 2023)
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Textiles in blue: production, consumption and material culture in rural areas in early-nineteenth century Finland Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Merja Uotila, Maare Paloheimo
ABSTRACT The article focuses on masculine consumption patterns and the production and dyeing of textiles in rural Finland in the early nineteenth century. It maintains that the rural consumption of textiles as well as individual choices and tastes evolved, and our selected examples of males’ wardrobes demonstrate that contemporary styles were followed. The article targets an era that can be regarded
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Special issue on ‘Agriculture and economic development’ Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Paul Sharp
(2021). Special issue on ‘Agriculture and economic development’. Scandinavian Economic History Review: Vol. 69, Agriculture and economic development, pp. 197-198.
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A stolen revolution. The political economy of the land reform in interwar Czechoslovakia Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Antonie Doležalová
ABSTRACT This study revises the picture of the interwar Czechoslovak land reform as an example of a successful non-violent land reform. The study reveals that the land reform in Czechoslovakia, which passed as a revolutionary change, did not reach its announced targets: the redistribution of the land to landless and land-poor people and the reduction of inequality of land distribution in society. Based
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Atoms for feeding: radioisotopes from the laboratory to the market, 1946–1960 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Gloria Sanz Lafuente
ABSTRACT The Second World War was followed by the development of the atom economy. There is no research on radioisotopes in economic and business history. This nuclear commodity stemmed from a related diversification process whose origin lay first in nuclear technology and then in reactors. This paper introduces the first stage of a technological innovation and the emergence phase of the agrarian and
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Prize announcement Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-11-29
(2021). Prize announcement. Scandinavian Economic History Review: Vol. 69, Agriculture and economic development, pp. 328-328.
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When coffee was banned: strategies of labour and leisure among Stockholm’s poor women, 1794–1796 and 1799–1802 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Anna Knutsson, Hanna Hodacs
ABSTRACT This article maps out the largely unknown history of poor women’s dealings with coffee in Stockholm during the coffee prohibitions of 1794–1796 and 1799–1802 drawing on the city’s extensive police records. A total of 536 cases have been identified that involved the illegal selling, preparation, and consumption of coffee. These cases are analysed in the context of the separate but intertwined
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Knowledge-based growth in natural resource intensive economies: mining, knowledge development and innovation in Norway 1860–1940 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Lars C. Bruno
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 71, No. 1, 2023)
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Half a century of female wage disadvantage: an analysis of Denmark’s public wage hierarchy in 1969 and today Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Astrid Elkjær Sørensen, Stinne Skriver Jørgensen, Maja Meiland Hansen
ABSTRACT In June 1969, the Danish parliament passed an extensive law complex, known as the Public Servant Reform of 1969. An important part of the reform was a new wage and classification system into which all public employees were placed. In newer Danish research on the gender wage gap, it is a hypothesis that the reform created a wage hierarchy in the public sector which in general was unfavourable
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Migrant mothers: work, nation and racialisation in Swedish official discourses 1970–2000 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Paulina de los Reyes
ABSTRACT Images of migrant mothers have been a powerful marker for otherness in discourses of gender, migration and racialisation in Sweden. These women are often described as a problematic group in official discourses on labour-market policy, social welfare and gender equality. Taking as its point of departure the belief that knowledge production constitutes a central arena for deploying relations
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Narrative and computational text analysis in business and economic history Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Gregory Ferguson-Cradler
ABSTRACT Recent calls from within economics for increased attention to narrative open the door to possible cross-fertilisation between economics and more humanistically oriented business and economic history. Indeed, arguments for economists to take narratives seriously and incorporate them into economic theory have some similarities with classic calls for a revival of narrative in history and abandonment
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Natural resources and economic growth: comparing nineteenth century Scandinavia and twentieth century Southeast Asia Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Lars Christian Bruno
ABSTRACT This paper aims to bridge part of the gap that exists between the resource curse literature and economic historical research on natural resources by analysing four resource-abundant countries. The study proposes that at the sectoral level, the determinants of growth in resource-based industries were mostly similar in the late 19th and late 20th centuries. However, we also argue that the relative
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Household risk strategies during a pandemic – experiences from the 1918 influenza pandemic Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Lars-Fredrik Andersson, Liselotte Eriksson
ABSTRACT In 2020, The COVID-19 crisis has put great pressure on the economy worldwide. Only time can tell whether the COVID-19 crisis will have permanent effects on corporate and household behaviour and how it will affect society at large. This article examines historical experiences of how households managed the financial consequences of rising mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic. We find
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Female enterprise on a transnational border: the entrepreneurial agency of an East Icelandic businesswoman, Pálína Waage (1864–1935) Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Sigríður Matthíasdóttir, Þorgerður J. Einarsdóttir
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to contribute to the historical discussion of women entrepreneurs. It demonstrates that in Iceland, historical research on this theme has been scarce. The special focus of this article is to analyse the entrepreneurial agency of an East Icelandic female businesswoman, Pálína Waage (1864–1935), against this background. Based on her autobiography, diaries, and other
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Vad är ekonomisk historia? [What is economic history?] Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Pål Thonstad Sandvik
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 71, No. 1, 2023)
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The quest for economic stability: a study on Swedish stabilisation policies 1873–2019 Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Fredrik N. G. Andersson
ABSTRACT This paper explores the evolution of Swedish stabilisation policies through six policy regimes between 1873 and 2019. We focus on discretionary policy decisions by estimating policy shocks using a SVAR model. Through these shocks, we explore how stabilisation policies have evolved over time and how policymakers responded to key economic events such as financial crises and wars. Our results
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Ingenjörerna Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Arne Kaijser
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 70, No. 3, 2022)
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Danmark som søfartsnation – Fortællinger, interesser og identitet gennem 250 år Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-08-31 Leos Müller
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 70, No. 3, 2022)
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Med kjønnsperspektiv på norsk historie [With gender perspective on Norwegian history] Scandinavian Economic History Review Pub Date : 2021-08-31 Carolina Uppenberg
Published in Scandinavian Economic History Review (Vol. 70, No. 2, 2022)