Iceland and the International Monetary Fund Intent. The conditionalities include details of Banking Sector restructuring, changes to Fiscal Policy including government austerity and changes to exchange rate policies. Following the global financial crisis in 2007-2008 Iceland's banking sector collapsed leading to wide ranging unemployment and a lessening of support for the Icelandic currency - the Icelandic Krona ISK. This was triggered by an insolvency of the private banking sector. The largest Icelandic banks had liabilities in excess of 80 percent of GDP . Iceland requested assistance from the IMF and from its Nordic partners in the Nordic Council. The goal of Iceland in this market intervention
Monetary-disequilibrium theory Monetary-disequilibrium theory Monetary disequilibrium theory is a product of the Monetarist school and is mainly represented in the works of Leland Yeager and Austrian macroeconomics. The basic concept of monetary equilibrium (disequilibrium) was, however, defined in terms of an individual's demand for cash balance by Mises (1912) in his "Theory of Money and Credit". Monetary disequilibrium is one of three theories of macroeconomic fluctuations which accord an important role to money, the others being the Austrian theory of the business cycle and one based on rational expectations. Leland Yeager's (1968) understanding of the monetary disequilibrium theory begins with fundamental properties