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.
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 […]
Economic Diversification and Industrialization in Countries Rich in Natural Resources
Contributon to a panel debate at the 15th session of the UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization) General Conference on Towards partnerships […]
Iceland: Youth Participation in Democratic Governance
Presentation at Annual Democracy Forum organized by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) and the government of Chile and held […]
Democracy in Africa
Based on statistical measures of different degrees of democracy vs. autocracy, this article briefly reviews the progress of democracy around […]
Iceland: From Boom to Bust, and Then What?
Presentation at a conference on Reform Capacity and Macroeconomic Performance in the Nordic Countries held at the Copenhagen Business School […]
The Role of the IMF as Trusted Advisor & IMF Response to the Global Financial Crisis
Participation in a meeting organized by DEval (German Institute for Development Evaluation), BMZ (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development […]