Central Banks´ Mission Creep
Here I argue that central banks need to take a broader view of their mandate to keep inflation under control. […]
Singapore´s Mixed Success
Bibliography
Books in English Prosperity through Trade and Structural Reform, Festschrift in honour of Per Magnus Wijkman, edited by Emil Ems […]
Extra Small Countries Can Flourish
The North Atlantic fishing nations the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland are very small nations, but although they make up less […]
G7 versus the BRICS: taking stock in 12 figures
Can China and Russia offer an alternative social model to the universal norms they reject? The evidence says no.
Balancing natural resources and human and social capital: Pathways to economic diversification in Mongolia
Paper on Mongolia which grew out of my work with Jean-Pascal N. Nganou for the World Bank.
Very short CV
Thorvaldur Gylfason is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Iceland and Research Associate at CESifo (Center for Economic […]
A tale of two countries: Belarus and Lithuania
With Eduard Hochreiter. In 1991, Belarus did not join the Baltic states in striking out independently from the Soviet Union. […]
Norway: it´s time for a more ethical exploitation of O&G resources
With Arne Jon Isachsen, also in Italian
Ukraine’s future prosperity: What can be learned from Poland
With Eduard Hochreiter and Tadeusz Kowalski.