The Dutch Disease in Reverse: Iceland’s Natural Experiment
Presentation at OxCarré, Oxford University. Published in Luigi Paganetto (ed.), Getting Globalization Right: Sustainability and Inclusive Growth in the post […]
Natural Resource Management: Timing and Magnitude of Natural Resource Wealth and Their Impact on Macro Fiscal Policy
Discussion of Flagship Report on Natural Resources and Human Development at a Technical Workshop organized by Oxford Policy Management and […]
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 […]
First Crowd-sourced Constitution: The Case of Iceland – the Use of ICT for Facilitating Policy Dialogue on Constitutional Issues
ICT is Not a Substitute for Politics Lecture at a conference Towards a New Paradigm in Communication between Public Institutions and […]
Social Aspects of Economic Crises — Precursors and Consequences
Keynote Address at 34th Arne Ryde Symposium in honor of Prof. Lars Jonung at Lund University, Sweden, 3-4 October 2014. […]
Constitution on Ice
Presentation at a workshop on Constitutions organized by the Constitutional Studies Group in University College Dublin in conjunction with the […]
Can and Should the EU’s Eastern Partnership be Saved?
Presentation at a workshop on Trade Policy Regimes at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, […]
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 […]
Avoiding the Resource Curse and Consequences for the Financial Sector
Presentation at a Plenary Session at Partnership Forum: Making Finance Work for Africa, sponsored by the World Bank and held […]
Natural Resources: Economic and Legal Aspects
Presentation at a Policy Lab on Natural Resource Management organized by the Global Development Network and held in Dakar, Senegal.