IMF Staff Country Reports

Iceland: Selected Issues Paper

October 4, 2010

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Summary

In this study, during 2008, the financial crisis lead Iceland’s public debt to soar from under 30 percent of GDP to more than 100 percent of GDP, and while underlying external debt came down sharply, it remains elevated at close to 300 percent of GDP. First, external sustainability is overviewed, and second, growth of Iceland’s economy has been challenged, and finally, fiscal adjustments and its macroeconomic impacts are overviewed. Traditional external debt sustainability analysis (DSA) suggests that Iceland’s external debt is sustainable but is vulnerable to depreciation shock.

Subject: Export performance, Exports, External debt, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal policy, International trade, Public debt

Keywords: Asset, Asset volatility, CR, Debt, Export performance, Export products, Exports, Fiscal consolidation, GDP, GDP growth, Global, Growth challenge, Herfindahl-Hirschmann export product concentration index, ISCR, Model simulation

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    55

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2010/304

  • Stock No:

    1ISLEA2010003

  • ISBN:

    9781455208548

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685