Otmar Issing, President of the Center for Financial Studies at Frankfurt University, was a founding Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and the author of The Birth of the Euro.
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Otmar Issing
Commentaries by Otmar Issing
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Ban the Common Bond
FRANKFURT – With the deepening of the global financial crisis, spreads between the government bonds of different European Monetary Union (EM…
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Europe's Anchor of Stability
FRANKFURT – At less than ten years old, the euro is by all measures a young currency. Yet it has become a reality of daily life for almost 3…
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The ECB’s Two Pillars - A Success
In October 1998, just before the start of the European Monetary Union, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) adopted a st…
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Monetary Policy and European Growth
Time and again “experts” from all areas try to exert pressure on the European Central Bank to relax its anti-inflationary monetary policy …
