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A Spending Spree
Gylfi Zoega
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In this paper, Iceland's economic turbulence sounds like a familiar macroeconomic story, a credit expansion fuelled excessive borrowing and spending. But there are unfamiliar details -an unusually large banking sector and a central bank unable to serve as a credible lender of last resort -that raise concerns.Abstract:
Iceland’s economic turbulence sounds like a familiar macroeconomic story — a credit expansion fuelled excessive borrowing and spending. But there are unfamiliar details — an unusually large banking sector and a central bank unable to serve as a credible lender of last resort — that raise concerns. Nevertheless, Iceland should be able to weather the current turmoil.read more
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