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Revising price history: consumer price index for Norway 1492–2018

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  • Ola Honningdal Grytten

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The paper presents a new combined annual cost of living and consumer price index for Norway covering 1492–2018, indicating that Norwegian price history has to be revised. The new historical price index is constructed on a significantly richer data material, which also makes it cover a longer period of price history than the existing one. This is made possible by the compilation of quantitative data from numerous sources, mostly originating from the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with grain prices stretching back to 1492. The new combined cost of living and consumer price index is constructed by a Laspeyres approach with shifting baskets for commodities and expenditure groups.The index makes it possible to follow annual inflation and deflation in Norway for a period of 526 years. When comparing to existing indices, the new series reveals that revisions are needed in Norwegian price history. These make the historical price development more in line with those of the neighbouring countries and more in line with the pattern of wholesale prices.

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  • Ola Honningdal Grytten, 2020. "Revising price history: consumer price index for Norway 1492–2018," Scandinavian Economic History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 68(2), pages 129-144, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:sehrxx:v:68:y:2020:i:2:p:129-144
    DOI: 10.1080/03585522.2020.1714714
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    1. Grytten, Ola Honningdal, 2020. "Two centuries of economic growth: Norwegian GDP 1816-2020," Discussion Paper Series in Economics 10/2020, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics.

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