Social Capital and Crises with an Application to Iceland
Ch. 1 in Makropolitik i kris: En vänskrift till Lars Jonung med anledning av hans 70-årsdag Abstract Economic growth is […]
Free trade agreements, institutions and exports of Eastern Partnership countries
With Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Per Magnus Wijkman. Following popular protests at home and the fall of the government, Ukraine reversed […]
Filling the institutional vacuum in Eastern Europe
With Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Per Magnus Wijkman. In Eastern Partnership Review No. 21, May 2015. Abstract An “institutional vacuum” characterized […]
From constitutional reform to fortified democracy
Whereas some argue there is no need to revise the US constitution, others believe that its inherent flaws are in […]
Negative Interest
Í Birgitta Swedenborg (ritstj.), Swedish Economic Policy — Then, Now, and in the Future, afmælisrit handa Hans Tson Söderström prófessor, Dialogos, Stockholm, 2015. Ensk gerð […]
Preface, Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Learning from History
Preface to a volume of essays.
Iceland: How could this happen?
Í Torben M. Andersen, Michael Bergman, and Svend E. Hougaard Jensen (ritstj.), Reform Capacity and Macroeconomic Performance in the Nordic Countries.
Making a democratic constitution
After the financial crash of 2008, Iceland’s prospects looked promising in two respects. First, the government decided to call the […]
A way out of the Ukrainian quagmire
The Ukraine saw EU soft power met by Russian hard power. This column argues that the EU should counter this […]
How free trade can help convert the ’Arab Spring’ into permanentændum peace and democracy
With Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Per Magnus Wijkman.