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Lessons from a collapse of a financial system

Benediktsdottir, Sigridur; Daníelsson, Jón; Gylfi Zoega - In: Economic policy : a European forum 66 (2011), pp. 183-231

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Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir; Gylfi Zoega - In: Mind & society : adaptive behaviours under risk and … 10 (2011) 2, pp. 149-164

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Feminism and labour supply in the Nordic countries/ Axel Hall; Gylfi Zoega

Hall, Axel; Gylfi Zoega - 2008

Feminism and labour supply in the Nordic countries Axel Hall and Gylfi Zoega Address: Axel Hall School of … Business Reykjavik University Ofanleiti 2 103 Reykjavik Iceland Email: axelhall@ru.is Address: Gylfi Zoega … TTThttp://www.ioes.hi.is W08:05 Gylfi Zoega: Productivity, wages and relationships. W08:04 Thrainn Eggertsson: Knowledge …

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Values and labor force participation in the Nordic countries

Hall, Axel; Zoega, Gylfi - 2014

The Nordic countries are known for their success in combining an extensive welfare state with high labor force participation. This is explained by the origins of their welfare states that can be traced to a unique set of values and beliefs that emphasize the right of women to participate in the...

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Values and labor force participation in the Nordic countries

Hall, Axel; Zoega, Gylfi - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 8 (2014) 2014-41, pp. 1-43

The Nordic countries are known for their success in combining an extensive welfare state with high labor force participation. This is explained by the origins and organization of their welfare states, which can be traced to a set of values and beliefs that emphasize the right of women to...

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Values and labor force participation in the Nordic countries

Hall, Axel; Zoega, Gylfi - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

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European Integration and the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle

Katsimi, Margarita; Zoega, Gylfi - Birkbeck, Department of Economics, Mathematics & Statistics - 2014

We estimate the Feldstein-Horioka equation for the period 1960-2012 and find structural breaks that coincide with the introduction of the European single market in 1993, the introduction of the euro in 1999 and the financial crisis in 2008. The results suggest that the correlation between...

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A Golden Rule of Health Care

Gestsson, Marias H.; Zoega, Gylfi - Birkbeck, Department of Economics, Mathematics & Statistics - 2014

We derive a golden rule for the level of health care expenditures and find that the optimal level of life-extending health care expenditures should increase with rising productivity and retirement age, while the effects of improvement in medical technology are ambiguous.

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Education, social equality and economic growth : a view of the landscape

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Gylfi Zoega - 2003

Education has been one of the key determinants of economic growth around the world since 1965. In this paper, we discuss three different measures of education, and consider their relationship to the distribution of income as measured by the Gini coefficient as well as to economic growth across...

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Booth, Alison L. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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