Iceland's rise, fall, stabilisation and beyond

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 127-144

  Wade, Robert H ^a   Sigurgeirsdottir, Silla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Corporatism; Financial crisis; Liberalisation; Minsky; Policy feedbck loop; Privatization

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CAPITAL FLOW; DEREGULATION; FINANCIAL CRISIS; GOVERNMENT; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LIBERALIZATION; LIVING STANDARD; NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL ECONOMY; PRIVATIZATION;

ICELAND;

EID: 84855892279     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/ber038     Document Type: Article

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