Natural Resource Endowment: A Mixed Blessing?
Presentation at a high-level seminar on Natural resources, finance, and development organized by the Central Bank of Algeria and the […]
Natural resource endowment: A mixed blessing?
Í Beyond the Curse: Policies to Harness the Power of Natural Resources, ritstj. Rabah Arezki, Þorvaldur Gylfason og Amadou Sy, […]
A Lesson from the Iceland Crisis
Presentation at a seminar at Felleshus der Nordischen Botschaften in Berlin.
When life imitates art: Mel Brooks and the bankers
Mel Brooks and the bankers
In Mel Brooks’ hit film and Broadway musical The Producers, those charged with making their musical a success instead try […]
From Boom to Bust: The Iceland Story
Lunch seminar at the IMF Institute in Washington, DC. For the text version, see Chapter 7 of Nordics in Global Crisis.
Growing Together: Croatia and Latvia
Presentation of a joint paper with Eduard Hochreiter at the 16th Research Conference of the National Bank of Croatia in […]
IMF Institute/Asian Development Bank Lectures
Lectures held in Seoul, May-June 2010. Lecture 1: Introduction to Financial Programming Lecture 2: External Sector Accounts, Analysis, and Forecasting […]
Iceland’s special investigation: The plot thickens
What brought down Iceland’s banks? This column examines the revelations from the latest report from the Icelandic parliament, raising the […]
Turkey’s road to Europe
With Per Wijkman. Should Turkey join the EU? This column argues for Turkish membership in order to wed the economic […]