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 […]
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 […]