Democracy under stress
Freedom House recently demoted the United States from top rank among the world´s democracies. The reasons given include ‘the cumulative […]
The Dutch Disease in Reverse: Iceland’s Natural Experiment
Presentation at the 8th RCEA (Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) Macro-Money-Finance Workshop, Rimini, Italy.
Spineless social democracy
Iceland´s New Constitution Is Not Solely a Local Concern
Presentation at the 83rd International Atlantic Economic Conference, Berlin, Germany, 22-25 March 2017. Published in Ágúst Th. Árnason and Catherine […]
Double diversification
There is a cross-country relationship between economic performance and both economic and political diversification. This column presents global evidence that […]
Which Conflicts Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Help Resolve?
With Per Magnus Wijkman, in Bent Jesper Christensen and Carsten Kowalczyk (eds.), Globalization: Strategies and Effects, Springer Verlag, 2017.
Digital Tools and the Derailment of Iceland´s New Constitution
With Anne Meuwese, in Corien Prins, Peter Lindseth, Monica Guisse and Colette Cuijpers (eds.), Digital Democracy in a Globalized World, […]
Efficiency, Fairness, and Social Cohesion in Europe and the United States: Incomes, Hours of Work, and Equality with an Afterthought on Iceland
In Luigi Paganetto (ed.), Sustainable Growth in the EU: Challenges and Solutions, under a shorter title (“Incomes, Hours of Work, […]
Iceland´s new constitution is not solely a local concern
This paper analyzes the constitutional impasse in Iceland where, after the financial collapse of 2008, Parliament convened a National Assembly […]
The New Constitution is Not an Exclusively Icelandic Concern
Lecture at an international conference on the revision of the Icelandic constitution held at the University of Akureyri and organized […]