Why didn’t anyone stop the bankers? Guðrún Johnsen: Down the Banking System: Lessons from Iceland

Bókadómur Despite the attention that the collapse of Iceland’s three major international banks Kaupthing, Glitnir and Íslandsbanki has attracted in the international mass media in the fall of 2008, most are still puzzled by the inability of key policy makers to avert the virtually complete collapse...

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Main Author: Conrad, Maximilian, 1975-
Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1946/23375
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spelling ftskemman:oai:skemman.is:1946/23375 2023-05-15T16:47:56+02:00 Why didn’t anyone stop the bankers? Guðrún Johnsen: Down the Banking System: Lessons from Iceland Conrad, Maximilian, 1975- Háskóli Íslands 2014-12 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1946/23375 en eng http://www.irpa.is Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla, 10 (2): bls. 1-4 1670-6803 1670-679X http://hdl.handle.net/1946/23375 Ritdómar Article 2014 ftskemman 2022-12-11T06:51:14Z Bókadómur Despite the attention that the collapse of Iceland’s three major international banks Kaupthing, Glitnir and Íslandsbanki has attracted in the international mass media in the fall of 2008, most are still puzzled by the inability of key policy makers to avert the virtually complete collapse of the country’s financial system. How is it possible that three banks were allowed to grow so big that by the time they ultimately collapsed, they were indeed far “too big to fail”? Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Skemman (Iceland)
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description Bókadómur Despite the attention that the collapse of Iceland’s three major international banks Kaupthing, Glitnir and Íslandsbanki has attracted in the international mass media in the fall of 2008, most are still puzzled by the inability of key policy makers to avert the virtually complete collapse of the country’s financial system. How is it possible that three banks were allowed to grow so big that by the time they ultimately collapsed, they were indeed far “too big to fail”?
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Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla, 10 (2): bls. 1-4
1670-6803
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