Everybody working in the financial system has an incentive to increase its complexity, including the regulators
12 April 2021

Riskometers and their inconsistencies
11 April 2021

What happens if bitcoin succeeds?
26 February 2021

Global market risk
15 February 2021

On the future of Amazon
13 February 2021

How fast is the Apple M1?
8 February 2021

Moral hazard, the fear of the markets, and how central banks responded to Covid-19
28 January 2021

Central bank digital currencies
13 January 2021

Erasmus and Turing
11 January 2021

Brexit and Marxism
3 January 2021

What to do about the Covid financial system bailouts?
22 December 2020

The crypto-technical response to the Covid-19 bailouts
13 December 2020

The libertarian response to the Covid-19 financial turmoil
9 December 2020

The socialist response to the Covid-19 financial turmoil
4 December 2020

On the response of the financial authorities to Covid-19
2 December 2020

The Covid-19 bailouts and the future of the capitalist banking system
26 November 2020

Which programming language is best for economic research: Julia, Matlab, Python or R?
20 August 2020

ARM on AWS for R
15 June 2020

Low vol strategies
8 May 2020

Of Julia and R
8 May 2020

How to manipulate risk forecasts 101
30 April 2020

The five principles of correct riskometer use
27 April 2020

The problem with Backtesting
25 April 2020

The magic of riskometers
24 April 2020

Risk and scientific socialism
23 April 2020

Financial crises and epidemics
19 April 2020

Hayek and Corona
17 April 2020

Hayek et Corona
17 April 2020

Ignoring the Corona analysis
15 April 2020

The coronavirus crisis is no 2008
26 March 2020

Artificial intelligence as a central banker
6 March 2020

Systemic consequences of outsourcing to the cloud
2 December 2019

The dissonance of the short and long term
12 August 2019

Central banks and reputation risk
6 August 2019

The Brexit culture war
5 May 2019

All about BoB — The Bank of England Bot
29 April 2019

My tiny, tiny contribution to Apple's fall in profits
6 January 2019

The 2018 market in a 250 year context
1 January 2019

Short and long-term risk
3 December 2018

Perceived and actual risk
2 December 2018

Cryptocurrencies: Financial stability and fairness
9 November 2018

The October 2018 stock market in a historical context
1 November 2018

The hierarchy of financial policies
12 September 2018

Which numerical computing language is best: Julia, MATLAB, Python or R?
9 July 2018

Cryptocurrencies
26 June 2018

What are risk models good for?
3 June 2018

The McNamara fallacy in financial policymaking
1 June 2018

VIX, CISS and all the political uncertainty
20 May 2018

Here be dragons
30 March 2018

Low risk as a predictor of financial crises
26 March 2018

Cryptocurrencies don't make sense
13 February 2018

Yesterday's mini crash in a historical context
6 February 2018

Artificial intelligence and the stability of markets
15 November 2017

European bank-sovereign doom loop
30 September 2017

Do the new financial regulations favour the largest banks?
27 September 2017

The ECB Systemic Risk Indicator
24 September 2017

Finance is not engineering
22 September 2017

University of Iceland seminar
14 June 2017

Brexit and systemic risk
31 May 2017

Should macroprudential policy target real estate prices?
12 May 2017

Is Julia ready for prime time?
12 March 2017

With capital controls gone, Iceland must prioritise investing abroad
12 March 2017

Competing Brexit visions
25 February 2017

Systemic consequences of Brexit
23 February 2017

Why macropru can end up being procyclical
15 December 2016

The fatal flaw in macropru: It ignores political risk
8 December 2016

Why it doesn't make sense to hold bonds
27 June 2016

On the financial market consequences of Brexit
24 June 2016

Cyber risk as systemic risk
10 June 2016

Big Banks' Risk Does Not Compute
24 May 2016

Interview on þjóðbraut on Hringbraut
21 May 2016

Farewell CoCos
26 April 2016

Will Brexit give us the 1950s or Hong Kong?
18 April 2016

Of Brexit and regulations
16 April 2016

IMF and Iceland
12 April 2016

Stability in Iceland
7 April 2016

Everybody right, everybody wrong: Plural rationalities in macroprudential regulation
18 March 2016

Of tail risk
12 March 2016

Models and regulations and the political leadership
26 February 2016

Why do we rely so much on models when we know they can't be trusted?
25 February 2016

Does a true model exist and does it matter?
25 February 2016

The point of central banks
25 January 2016

The macro-micro conflict
20 October 2015

Volatility, financial crises and Minsky's hypothesis
2 October 2015

Impact of the recent market turmoil on risk measures
28 August 2015

Iceland, Greece and political hectoring
13 August 2015

A proposed research and policy agenda for systemic risk
7 August 2015

Are asset managers systemically important?
5 August 2015

Objective function of macro-prudential regulations
24 July 2015

Risky business: Finding the balance between financial stability and risk
24 July 2015

Regulators could be responsible for next financial crash
21 July 2015

How Iceland is falling behind. On Sprengisandur
12 July 2015

Greece on Sprengisandur
12 July 2015

Why Iceland can now remove capital controls
11 June 2015

Market moves that are supposed to happen every half-decade keep happening
14 May 2015

Capital controls
12 May 2015

What do ES and VaR say about the tails
25 April 2015

Why risk is hard to measure
25 April 2015

Post-Crisis banking regulation: Evolution of economic thinking as it happened on Vox
2 March 2015

The Danish FX event
24 February 2015

On the Swiss FX shock
24 February 2015

Europe's proposed capital markets union
23 February 2015

What the Swiss FX shock says about risk models
18 January 2015

Model risk: Risk measures when models may be wrong
8 June 2014

The new market-risk regulations
28 November 2013

Solvency II: Three principles to respect
21 October 2013

Political challenges of the macroprudential agenda
6 September 2013

Iceland's post-Crisis economy: A myth or a miracle?
21 May 2013

The capital controls in Cyprus and the Icelandic experience
28 March 2013

Towards a more procyclical financial system
6 March 2013

Europe's pre-Eurozone debt crisis: Faroe Islands in the 1990s
11 September 2012

Countercyclical regulation in Solvency II: Merits and flaws
23 June 2012

The Greek crisis: When political desire triumphs economic reality
2 March 2012

Iceland and the IMF: Why the capital controls are entirely wrong
14 November 2011

Iceland: Was the IMF programme successful?
27 October 2011

How not to resolve a banking crisis: Learning from Iceland's mistakes
26 October 2011

Capital, politics and bank weaknesses
27 June 2011

The appropriate use of risk models: Part II
17 June 2011

The appropriate use of risk models: Part I
16 June 2011

Lessons from the Icesave rejection
27 April 2011

A prudential regulatory issue at the heart of Solvency II
31 March 2011

Valuing insurers' liabilities during crises: What EU policymakers should not do
18 March 2011

Risk and crises: How the models failed and are failing
18 February 2011

The saga of Icesave: A new CEPR Policy Insight
26 January 2010

Iceland applies for EU membership, the outcome is uncertain
21 July 2009

Bonus incensed
25 May 2009

Not so fast! There's no reason to regulate everything
25 March 2009

Modelling financial turmoil through endogenous risk
11 March 2009

Financial regulation built on sand: The myth of the riskometer
1 March 2009

Government failures in Iceland: Entranced by banking
9 February 2009

How bad could the crisis get? Lessons from Iceland
12 November 2008

Regulation and financial models: Complexity kills
29 September 2008

Blame the models
8 May 2008

Greece on Sprengisandur

Jul 12, 2015

I got to talk about Greece on the radio show Sprengisandur, if you understand Icelandic.