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This paper reviews economic developments in Iceland following its financial collapse in 2008, focusing on causes and … developments elsewhere on the periphery of Europe, in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. In some ways, however, Iceland resembles Italy …
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This study discusses the economic, political, and judicial aftermath of Iceland´s financial collapse in 2008. It … be adjusted in two respects. Second, since the crisis, Ireland has made a significantly stronger recovery than Iceland in … terms of per capita income. Third, Iceland´s economic recovery from the crisis is marred by a visible deterioration of …
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This paper reports recent events in Iceland where the political agents of oligarchs didn t even bother to try to … simply find ways to nullify the outcome ex post. The paper reviews and explains the making of Iceland's crowd …
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encourage more stable long-run economic growth. Thereafter, the paper considers Iceland as a case study of the intertwined …
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This paper reviews aspects of the constitution making process in Iceland after the financial collapse of 2008 …, emphasizing the differences between the provisional constitution of 1944 when Iceland separated unilaterally from Nazi …-occupied Denmark and Denmark’s 1849 constitution which served, with notable exceptions, as the prototype for Iceland’s 1944 …
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This paper maps the use of digital tools in the Icelandic constitutional revision process of 2011 and discusses its aftermath in subsequent years. Although causal links between the digital elements of the process and the content and fate of the constitutional bill are impossible to establish, an...
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To understand Iceland’s political situation, it is necessary to consider the historical background to the post …
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this regard. The external debt of Greece, Iceland, Ireland, and Spain increased exponentially, in Iceland at a rate higher … than the rate of interest on foreign debt. The Ponzi scheme that played out in Iceland begs the question why a country … valued financial gains above all else collided with socially desirable outcomes. The root of the problem in Iceland as well …
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We use a change in Iceland’s education system as a natural experiment to measure the effect of years spent in upper … secondary school on subsequent first year outcomes at university. The duration of Iceland´s upper-secondary education was …
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Nearly all legislatures segregate politicians by party. We use seating lotteries in the Icelandic Parliament to estimate the effects of seating integration on bipartisanship. When two politicians from different parties are randomly assigned to sit together, they are roughly 1 percentage point...
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