Most consumer price variations from 1992 to 2024 can be explained by the indices of wages and import prices. In periods including the tumult around the bank collaps 2008, import prices provide most information; the relationship between wages and prices is disturbed and the model fit is improved...

The Central Bank has published papers about the transmission of monetary policy in Iceland, based on a VAR model, estimated by quarterly values from 2009 to 2022. Dependent variables are the GDP, consumer price index, exchange rate and the policy interest rate. Lagged values by one quarter and...

Social stratification, segregation and inequity invite concerns about fairness and social harmony. Our game-theoretic and experimental results indicate that they can also be detrimental to productivity, efficiency, and welfare. Class is defined by players' resources, incentives to make a public...

This paper characterizes optimal labour and capital income taxation when access to income shifting opportunities is heterogeneous. I develop a two-period model in which individuals can reclassify labour income as capital income by paying a fixed cost (an extensive margin, e.g. incorporation or...

This paper characterises optimal taxation when rates of return are affected by effort, ability, and financial advice. When the government observes wealth and capital income, the optimal marginal tax rate on capital income is positive, whereas the rate on wealth is negative in the baseline model....

We contribute to the literature on saving in retirement by studying the saving behavior of retirees in Iceland, a country where health care and nursing homes ares free of charge. This removes some of the precautionary motive for saving, leaving the bequest motive and other inter-generational...

We take advantage of a unique experiment that took place in Iceland in 2015. Following the collapse of the country's banking system in 2008, the authorities decided on a program of mortgage relief that in effect lowered the principal of mortgages overnight. What sets our experiment apart from...

The 1992 Maastricht Treaty, laid the foundations for the current European Union with its single market in goods, services, capital and labour and established the framework for the creation of the single currency. We study countries that differ in the extent to which they share a common currency...

User rights in fisheries refer to the rights of fishers to harvest from fish resources. In terms of exclusivity, security, duration and transferability these rights can be strong or they can be weak. For this a definition of and a measure of the strength of user rights is needed. We refer to...