The Icelandic Financial Crisis: A Study Into the World´s Smallest Currency Area and Its Recovery from Total Banking Collapse

by Ásgeir Jónsson and Hersir Sigurgeirsson

Chapter 1) Too-big-to-save - the anatomy of a total collapse.- Chapter 2) Big decisions in the small hours - making bank failure a winning strategy.- Chapter 3) From AAA to terrorism - Icesave.- Chapter 4) The standoff with the hedge funds - Is Iceland owned by creditors?.- Chapter 5) What happens when you quadruple the money supply? The hangover of QE policies.- Chapter 6) The Faustian bargain of capital controls.- Chapter 7) Going from 40% cost.-...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137394544
• ISBN13: 9781137394545
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.6"