Preludes to the Icelandic Financial Crisis

1. Introduction

1. Introduction
Robert Z. Aliber

2. The Chapters in this Volume

2. The Chapters in this Volume
Gylfi Zoega

3. Privatization and Deregulation: a Chronology of Events

3. Privatization and Deregulation: a Chronology of Events
Throstur Olaf Sigurjonsson

Part I. International Organizations and the Central Bank of Iceland

4. International Monetary Fund, Article IV Consultations 2006 and 2008
Robert Z. Aliber, Gylfi Zoega

5. OECD Economic Survey of Iceland, 2006 and 2008
Robert Z. Aliber, Gylfi Zoega

6. Central Bank of Iceland Financial Stability Reports 2006–8
Robert Z. Aliber, Gylfi Zoega

Part II. Other Reports

7. Iceland — Macro Imbalances Trigger Negative Outlook
Fitch Ratings

8. Iceland: Geyser Crisis
Lars Christiansen

9. Financial Stability in Iceland
Frederic S. Mishkin, Tryggvi T. Herbertsson

10. The Internationalization of Iceland’s Financial Sector
Richard Portes, Friđrik Már Baldursson, Frosti Ólafsson

11. The Icelandic Banking Crisis and What to Do about it: the Lender of Last Resort Theory of Optimal Currency Areas
Willem H. Buiter, Anne C. Sibert

12. Iceland on the Brink? Options for a Small, Financially Active Economy in the Current Financial Crisis Environment
Daniel Gros

13. Events in Iceland: Skating on Thin Ice?
Thorvaldur Gylfason

14. A Spending Spree
Gylfi Zoega

15. Monetary Turbulence and the Icelandic Economy
Robert Z. Aliber

Part III. Lessons for Other Countries

16. Overbanked and Undersized: Lessons from Iceland
Anne C. Sibert

Keywords: Business and Management, Business Finance, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, International Economics, Banking