Olav Bjerkholt left PRIO in 1996. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Olav Bjerkholt
Associate Researcher
Olav Bjerkholt (1942-2020) was Research Director at Statistics Norway and Professor of Economics at the University of Oslo. He was associated with PRIO projects on the economic effects of arms spending 1965–67 and 1978–96.
Upon his passing away in February 2020, Nils Petter Gleditsch wrote an obituary with a particular focus on his collaborations with PRIO. You can read this by following this link.
Latest publications
All publications
Military Spending and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries
Book Chapter in The Economics of Defence
The National Peace Dividend
Book Chapter in The Peace Dividend
The Peace Dividend
Edited Volume
The Peace Dividend in Norway: Domestic or International?
Book Chapter in The Peace Dividend. Contributions to Economic Analysis, 235
The Wages of Peace: Disarmament in a Small Industrialized Economy
Monograph
Guns, Butter and Growth: The Case of Norway
Book Chapter in Defense, Welfare and Growth
Conversion Effects: A Case Study of Norway
Book Chapter in Making Peace Possible: the Promise of Economic Conversion
Military R&D and Economic Growth in Industrialized Market Economies
Book Chapter in Peace Research: Achievements and Challenges
Regional-økonomiske konsekvenser av nedrustning i Norge
Journal Article in Sosiologi idag
Local effects of conversion in Norway
PRIO Report
