Selected Essays

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Alexandre Lamfalussy - Selected Essays
Ivo Maes (Editor) in cooperation with György Szapáry
Alexandre Larnfalussy expressed himself with lucidity and often adopted controversial positions. In the light of subsequent events, we are compelkd to acknowledge that his assessments were generally correct and far-sighted.
Jacques de Larosiere
As tlie Founding President of the European Monetary Institute, the predecessor of the European Central Bank, Alexandre Lamfalussy (1929-2015) was one of the fathers of the euro. Moreover, as a central banker and, before Üiat, as a commercial banker, he lived through several financial crises. 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, firom his first article in 1953 to his last essay in 2014.
Ivo Maes is Senior Advisor at the Economics and Research Department of the National Bank of Belgium and a Professor, Robert... Tovább

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Alexandre Lamfalussy - Selected Essays
Ivo Maes (Editor) in cooperation with György Szapáry
Alexandre Larnfalussy expressed himself with lucidity and often adopted controversial positions. In the light of subsequent events, we are compelkd to acknowledge that his assessments were generally correct and far-sighted.
Jacques de Larosiere
As tlie Founding President of the European Monetary Institute, the predecessor of the European Central Bank, Alexandre Lamfalussy (1929-2015) was one of the fathers of the euro. Moreover, as a central banker and, before Üiat, as a commercial banker, he lived through several financial crises. 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, firom his first article in 1953 to his last essay in 2014.
Ivo Maes is Senior Advisor at the Economics and Research Department of the National Bank of Belgium and a Professor, Robert Triffin Chair, at the Université Catholique de Louvain, as well as at ICHEC Brussels Management School. In 2003, he was a member of the Committee for Institutional Reform of the West African Monetary Union. He has been a visiting professor at Duke University (USA), the Université de Paris-Sorbonne and the Universita Roma Tre. Since May 2015, he serves as the President of the Council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. He recently published Architects of the Euro. Intellectuals in the Making of European Monetary Union (editor, with Kenneth Dyson, Oxford University Press, 2016).
György Szapáry studied economics at the Université Catholique de Louvain where Alexandre Lamfalussy was the director of his doctorate thesis. Mr. Szapáry worked for many years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C., was Deputy Govemor of die Magyar Nemzeti Bank, the Central Bank of Hungary and served as Ambassador of Hungary to the United States. Currendy he is Chief Adviser to the Govemor of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank and Visiting Professor at the Gorvinus University of Budapest, Department of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank. Vissza