Preludes to the Icelandic Financial Crisis (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Aliber, R.; Zoega, G.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Iceland became one of the symbols of the global financial crisis. It provides an ideal test case for the perceptions of economists, in particular their ability to anticipate crises. The book contains papers and reports, written prior to the collapse of Iceland's financial system, about the economy. What did and didn't they see coming, and why?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 357
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230307148
• Artikelnr.: 45964599

Autorenporträt

FRIDRIK M. BALDURSSON Professor, School of Business, Reykjavik University, Iceland WILLEM BUITER Chief Economist, Citigroup, USA LARS CHRISTIANSEN Senior Analyst, Danske Bank, Denmark DANIEL GROS Director, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium THORVALDUR GYLFASON Professor of Economics, University of Iceland, Iceland TRYGGVI T. HERBERTSSON Member of Icelandic Parliament and a former Professor of Economics at the University of Iceland, Iceland FREDERIC MISHKIN Alfred Lerner Professor of Banking and Financial Institutions, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, USA RICHARD PORTES Professor of Economics, London Business School, UK ANNE SIBERT Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK THROSTUR O SIGURJONSSON Assistant Professor, School of Business, Reykjavik University, Iceland GYLFI ZOEGA Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Iceland, Iceland CARSTEN VALGREEN Chief Economist, Danske Bank, Denmark

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; R.Aliber Summary of Papers; G.Zoega Privatisation and Deregulation: A Chronology of Events; T.Olaf Sigurjonsson PART I: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THE CENTRAL BANK OF ICELAND International Monetary Fund, Article IV Consultations 2004-2008 OECD Policy Brief 2008 Central Bank of Iceland, Financial Stability Reports 2005-8 PART II: OTHER PAPERS AND REPORTS Fitch Report, February 2006 Iceland's Geyser Crisis; L.Christiansen Financial Stability in Iceland; F.Mishkin & T.T.Herbertsson The Internationalization of Iceland's Financial Sector; F.M.Baldursson & R.Portes The Collapse of Iceland's Banks: the Predictable End of a Non-viable Business Model; W.Buiter & A.Sibert Iceland on the Brink?; D.Gros Events in Iceland: Skating on Thin Ice; T.Gylfason A Spending Spree; G.Zoega Monetary Turbulence and the Icelandic Economy; R.Z.Aliber PART III: LESSONS FOR OTHER COUNTRIES Overbanked and Undersized: Lessons from Iceland; A.Sibert