In October 2008, Iceland's banking system collapsed. Within a week, the three major banks comprising ninety percent of the Icelandic banking system had failed. A long-running dispute on who ought to pay for the deposits in failed Icelandic banks has poisoned relations between Iceland, the United...

Researchers have documented extensive empirical evidence on both risk sharing across countries and the uncovered interest rate parity (UIP) condition. This paper involves investigating the empirical implications of imperfectly integrated financial markets resulting from the two phenomena. Under...