Presentation on the financial cycle in Iceland at an international conference in Macedonia

Thorvardur Tjörvi Ólafsson, Senior Economist at the Central Bank of Iceland, gave last week a presentation in Skopje at the annual research conference of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia. In his presentation, Tjörvi, presented the results of a forthcoming working paper on the financial cycle in Iceland over a period spanning more than a century. The title of the conference was 5th NBRM Research Conference - Economic and financial cycle spillovers: reconsidering domestic and cross-border channels and policy responses but Tjörvi’s presentation was part of the session on Economic and Financial Cycles: Synchronization and Spillover Channels.

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