Norway’s Wealth: Not Just Oil
Norwegians enjoy a very high standard of living. Is it due to their oil? This column describes the country’s impressive […]
Determinants of economic growth: A comparative analysis of Estonia and Georgia
Skrifað ásamt Eduard Hochreiter, í Economic Transformation of Central and Eastern European Countries, Conference Proceedings. Abstract We study and […]
Development and Growth in Mineral-Rich Countries
Presentation at the Sixth ESCB workshop on emerging markets at the Bank of Finland, in Helsinki, 8-9 May 2008. Also presented […]
Democracy and Growth
Public lecture at the The Finnish Economic Assocation, in Helsinki.
Skating on thin ice?
Recent events have commentators discussing whether Iceland is in danger of an economic meltdown. This column examines the situation in […]
Growing Apart? Estonia and Georgia
Presentation at the CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money and International Finance at CESifo, in Munich, 14-15 March 2008. Also […]
The Russian Economy
Lecture on Russia at the University of Reykjavík in 2008.
IMF Institute/STI Lectures
Lectures held in Singapore, February 2008. Lecture 1: Sources of Growth (New version) Lecture 2: External Sector Policies Lecture 3: Monetary Accounts, Analysis, and […]
When Iceland was Ghana
Believe it or not: in 1901, Iceland’s per capita national economic output was about the same as that of today’s […]
Dwindling fish: What’s the catch?
The Common Fisheries Policy, a product of special interests rather than economic rationale, has driven European fish stocks to dangerously […]