On February 24-25, 2006 an international workshop on “Regional and International Currency Arrangements” was held in Vienna. It was co-sponsored by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bank of Greece, and jointly organized by Eduard Hochreiter and George Tavlas. Academic economists and...

A comment on Lars Jonung and Eoin Drea's (2010) article, "It Can't Happen, It's a Bad Idea, It Won't Last: U.S. Economists on the EMU and the Euro, 1989-2002." _Econ Journal Watch_ 7(1):4-52. Link

In diesem Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass die Regierungen der Mitgliedstaaten der WWU und die autonomen Sozialpartner bei der Konzeption und Durchführung der Politik, für die sie jweils verantwortlich sind, den übergeordneten Stabilitätsrahmen berücksichtigen sollten, den der Maastrichter...

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult.Otmar Issing, Präsident des Center for Financial Studies, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Vorträge von Prof. Henning Bohn Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Otmar Issing President Center for Financial Studies, Uni-versity of Frankfurt, und Prof. Dr. Frank Westermann Professor of Economics, University of Osnabrück

In this paper I outline – from a practitioner’s as well as from a researcher’s perspective – several of the key developments that took place during the last century in monetary policy. In particular, I describe how the monetary system evolved from gold standard, prevailing throughout...