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.
From collapse to constitution: The case of Iceland
In Public Debt, Global Governance and Economic Dynamism, ed. Luigi Paganetto, Springer, 2013. Abstract Most of the time, crises precede constitutions. Following […]
Iceland, rising from the ashes
Rising from the Ashes
Presentation at an international seminar on Managing Fiscal Policy in a Monetary Union: Structural Reforms and Fiscal Policy Governance in […]
Joint Vienna Institute Lectures
Lectures held in Vienna, Austria November-December 2012. Lecture 1: Balance of Payments and Exchange Rate Regimes Lecture 2: The Challenges of Capital […]
Can the EU mobilise resources for peace in its neighbourhood?
With Per Wijkman. Today, most of Europe is free from dictatorships and conflict. Yet, these spectres loom in neighbouring states […]
Constitution making in action: The case of Iceland
Iceland is in the middle of a major constitutional overhaul. This column looks at the unorthodox use of a referendum […]
Constitutions: Financial crisis can lead to change
Many bemoan the fact that financial crisis and deep recession did not lead to constructive reform in most countries—at least […]