Alexandre Lamfalussy Selected Essays

Összefoglaló

As the founding president of the European Monotary Institute, the predecessor of the European Central Bank, Alexander Lamfalussy was one of the fathers of the euro. Moreover, as a central banker and, before that, as a commercial banker, he lived through several financial crisis. As an academic economist, he always tried to put policy problems in a broader analytical framework, often turning into a Cassandra. this book offers a selection of his essays, from his first article in 1953 ot his last essay in 2014