Iceland: Window remains wide-open
Historical evidence suggests that, with few exceptions, it takes a crisis to write or revise a country’s constitution. Iceland fits […]
Around the world with Irving Fisher
With Helgi Tómasson and Gylfi Zoega. This paper aims to show why Irving Fisher’s own data on interest rates and […]
Misnomers
There is a lot in a name. This column looks at the ideas that are wrongly attributed to Irving Fisher […]
Iceland´s seven meager years
Seven years after its crisis, Iceland has staged an economic recovery. This column suggests that despite its overall success, the […]
Social capital, inequality, and economic crisis
Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several […]
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 […]