Jan Tore Klovland is a professor of economics at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway. He has published journal articles on macroeconomic history, price history and monetary history as well as on the development of ocean freight rates. Selected publications include 'Pitfalls in the Estimation of the Yield on British Consols' (Journal of Economic History, 1994), 'Monetary Policy and Business Cycles in the Interwar Years: The Scandinavian Experience' (European Review of Economic History, 1998), and 'New Evidence on the Fluctuations in Ocean Freight Rates in the 1850s' (Explorations in Economic History, 2009).