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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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until 2008 with the experience of Sweden and Iceland. The working hypothesis is that social capital decay can be a precursor … as well as consequence of slow economic growth and of financial crises. Iceland is a case in point. An increasingly …
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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 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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The paper discusses the European Union as a union of primarily small European states, a union whose parallel emphasis on efficiency and fairness, including deep respect for human rights, holds the key to Europe's economic and social advances over the years. The paper shows that adjusting...
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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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article aims to show why Iceland, after its financial collapse in 2008, is now at last on the road to adopting a new …
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There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. This paper introduces fairness in a tax-benefit scheme that is based on several characteristics in order to...
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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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