Skating on thin ice?
In Preludes to the Icelandic Financial Crisis, ritstj. Robert Z. Aliber og Gylfi Zoega.
From Boom to Bust: The Case of Iceland
Presentation at the Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association in Denver, Colorado.
IMF Institute/Joint Vienna Institute Lectures
Lectures held in Vienna, Austria, January/February 2011. Lecture 1: Macroeconomic Challenges for Natural Resource Rich Countries Lecture 2: Dutch Disease, Volatility and Exchange […]
Beyond the Curse
Editors: Rabah Arezki, Thorvaldur Gylfason, and Amadou Sy Description Countries with an abundance of natural resources, many of which are […]
Dayton’s unfinished business
With Per Wijkman. Fifteen years after the Dayton Peace Accords, unresolved conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina have deadlocked its political […]
Beyond the Curse: Policies to Harness the Power of Natural Resources
Countries with an abundance of natural resources, many of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, often show a record of relatively […]
Economic integration as a Balkan peace project
With Per Wijkman. With the end of the Balkan conflicts in the late 1990s, the EU and the US set […]
Growing together: Croatia and Latvia
With Eduard Hochreiter. Croatia and Latvia both gained independence in the early 1990s. This column tracks their progress since. It […]
Trade in loot
With Per Wijkman. Since discovering oil in 1990, Equatorial Guinea has experienced massive growth that multiplied its GDP per capita […]
IMF Institute Lectures
Lectures held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, November 2010. Lecture 1: Macroeconomic Challenges for Natural Resource Rich Countries Lecture 2: Dutch Disease, Volatility […]