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 […]
What is the Future of the Non-Oil Economy? Developing the Reforms, Institutions, Infrastructure, and Finance to Diversify an Oil-Dominant Economy: Policy Reforms and Institutions
Presentation of natural resource issues in Iraq and Norway at a conference on The Resource Curse and Iraq: Lessons from Other Countries’ […]
A tale of two debtors: Iceland, Ireland — and their banks
How Free Trade Can Help Convert the ‘Arab Spring’ into Permanent Peace and Democracy
Presentation of a joint paper with Immaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Per Magnus Wijkman at the CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money and International […]
The Icelandic Experience: ‘Crowdsourcing’ the Constitution
Presentation at a conference on Women and Constitutional Futures: Gender equality matters in a new Scotland, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 14-15 […]
IMF-Middle East Center for Economics and Finance (CEF) Lectures
Lectures held in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Lecture 1: Macroeconomic Challenges in Natural Resource-Rich Countries Lecture 2: Macroeconomic Challenges and the Choice of […]
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.