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 […]
Dutch disease
Í Steven N. Durlauf og Lawrence E. Blume (ritstj.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Springer Verlag, Berlín, 2008 Abstract […]
Why Europe Works Less and Grows Taller
Inaugural research seminar at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, jointly organized by the Joint Vienna Institute, in […]
A golden rule of depreciation
We derive a Golden Rule for the obsolescence of physical capital. Optimal durability is shown to vary inversely with population […]