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 […]
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.