Learning from the "worst behaved": Iceland's financial crisis and the Nordic comparison

Thunderbird International Business Review

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 209-223

  Sigurjonsson, Throstur Olaf ^a   Mixa, Mar Wolfgang ^a  

^a Reykjavik University   (Denmark)

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EID: 79951606167     PISSN: 10964762     EISSN: 15206874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tie.20402     Document Type: Article

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