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ish economic problems of modern times. Closely related to Jorgen
Pedersen’s investigations into the way the business cycle move-
ments are reflected in the various economic activities, is his paper
on the movement of the rate of interest for long and short term
loans from 1855 to 1930, which was published in the Institute’s
quarterly, 0konomi og Politik, in 1930. Two years before, in
the same publication, Pedersen had analyzed the varying amounts
of the bank-note circulation in Denmark from 1882 to 1913.
Jorgen Pedersen’s survey of the “Economic Conditions in
Denmark after 1922” (1931) originated in a memorandum pre-
sented at a scientific conference organized by the League of Na-
tions to study the world depression. Although the paper was writ-
ten for the benefit of foreigners, it proved to have an independent
value for Danish students, thanks to its lucidly presented statistical
material covering the most recent period in Danish economic life.
For other study conferences the Institute prepared further memo-
randa written in English. Of these, H. P. Gotrik’s “Danish Eco-
nomic Policy 1931 —1938” (1939), was printed in book form
while Poul Nyboe Andersen’s “Danish Exchange Policy 1914—
1939” was published in manuscript in 1942. Finally there are
several unpublished manuscripts which have been submitted to
the members and rapporteurs of the various study conferences.
To this category belong Jorgen Pedersen’s studies on Restrictions
of International Trade (1932) and on Danish Currency Restric-
tions (1933) as well as Marius Gormsen’s: A Comparative Study
of the Economic Development of Small Countries with and with-
out Colonies — The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden.
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For a number of years the Institute carried on studies of the
economics of retail trade. The material was put at the disposal
of the Institute by the retailers themselves, the statistical treat-
ment of it being entrusted to C. Lind, who published a series of
papers on his findings, some in English, all in Danish, including
the grocery trade (1934), the provisions trade (1935), the fruit and
vegetable trade (1937) and the book trade (1941). After these
four papers the Institute abandoned this line of study in order
to establish a division of labour with the Copenhagen School of
Business, which took over further work in this field.
At a certain period in the first years of the 1930S’, the Insti-
tute examined the possibilities for studying the effects of the
rationalization of industry on production and labour. The plans