Oil-spill economics: How Ghana can succeed
Ghana is about to become a major oil producer. The country’s newfound oil is expected to bring in many billions […]
From Boom to Bust, Big Time: The Case of Iceland
Seminar at the Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus.
Resources and Economic Growth — Is Africa (Ghana) Different?
Presentation at an international policy conference on Competitiveness and Diversification: Strategy Challenges in a Petroleum-rich Economy organized by the Ministry of Trade […]
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 […]