Historical Monetary Statistics for Norway, 1819-2003

Friday June 11 2004, 09.00-17.45 at Norges Bank

Programme

08.30	Registration and coffee
09.00	Welcome address Jan F. Qvigstad, Executive Director and Chief Economist, Norges Bank
09.15	Historical monetary statistics in an international perspective Forrest Capie, Professor of Economic History, City University, London
10.15	Coffee

11.00	Session I - Overview and perspectives Historical statistics and monetary policy - overview and comments Pierre Siklos, Professor of Economics, WLU, Ontario, Canada Historical perspectives on financial stability - some observations Andrew Filardo, Bank of International Settlement, Basel
12.30	Lunch
14.00	Session II - Consumer prices, GDP indicators and interest rates Comments by Lasse Sandberg, Statistics Norway (Grytten) Comments by Olle Krantz, Umeå University, Sweden (Grytten) Comments by Forrest Capie, City University, London (Klovland)
15.30	Coffee
15.45	Session III - Money, credit and housing prices Comments by Peter Englund, Stockholm School of Economics (Eitrheim and Erlandsen)
17.15	Concluding comments Olle Krantz, Umeå University, Sweden