Bringing Down the Banking System Lessons from Iceland /

The combined collapse of Iceland's three largest banks in 2008 is the third largest bankruptcy in history and the largest banking system collapse suffered by any country in modern economic history, relative to GDP. How could tiny Iceland build a banking system in less than a decade that proport...

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Main Author: Johnsen, Gudrun. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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