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Learning from the “worst behaved”: Iceland's financial crisis and the Nordic comparison
Author(s) -
Sigurjonsson Throstur Olaf,
Mixa Mar Wolfgang
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
thunderbird international business review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.553
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1520-6874
pISSN - 1096-4762
DOI - 10.1002/tie.20402
Subject(s) - financial crisis , warning signs , warning system , financial sector , economics , financial system , economy , business , finance , macroeconomics , engineering , transport engineering , aerospace engineering
Abstract This article explores how the financial crisis in 2008 could have been partially avoided by Iceland through observing the warning signs. Iceland experienced the harshest consequences from the financial crisis in the Western world, such as the total collapse of its banking sector. This article compares the prelude of Iceland's financial crisis to the Scandinavian one, less than 20 years ago, providing an understanding of the sources of the crisis and its impact. Results show that signs of overexpansion in Iceland were clear and numerous. Iceland's structural weaknesses resemble many other badly hit countries, simply more extreme. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.