Otmar Issing
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Otmar Issing is University Professor and President of the Center for Financial Studies at the University of Frankfurt and Honorary Professor of the University of Würzburg. He was a member of the board of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 1990 to 1998 and a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2006. Among many special honors, he was the recipient of the International Prize of the Friedrich-August-Hayek Foundation in 2003. His books include The Birth of the Euro (2008) and Einführung in die Geldtheorie (Introduction to Monetary Theory), which has had 14 editions.