How free trade can help convert the ’Arab Spring’ into permanentændum peace and democracy
With Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Per Magnus Wijkman.
Meeting Russia’s challenge to EU’s Eastern Partnership
With Per Wijkman. The EU’s Eastern Partnership is currently in turmoil. Armenia and Ukraine – two of the four partner […]
A decade of editing the European Economic Review
Ásamt Zvi Eckstein, Esther Gal-Or, Jürgen von Hagen og Gerard Pfann, 1. kafli í Shared Secrets of Economics Editors, ritstj. Michael Szenberg og […]
Democracy in Africa
Based on statistical measures of different degrees of democracy vs. autocracy, this article briefly reviews the progress of democracy around […]
A tale of two debtors: Iceland, Ireland — and their banks
Productivity differences in Nordic hospitals: Can we learn from Finland?
Comment on a paper by Clas Rehnberg and Unto Häkkinen
Putsch: Iceland‘s crowd-sourced constitution killed by parliament
Following its spectacular plunge from grace in 2008 when its banking system crashed, inflicting huge damage on foreign creditors as […]
Resource rents, democracy and corruption: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
With Rabah Arezki.
From collapse to constitution: The case of Iceland
In Public Debt, Global Governance and Economic Dynamism, ed. Luigi Paganetto, Springer, 2013. Abstract Most of the time, crises precede constitutions. Following […]