Autor: Malte Krueger

Malte Krueger is Professor of Economics at the University of Applied Sciences in Aschaffenburg (Germany). He has worked as a research fellow for a number of institutions, inter alia, the Bank of Spain, the University of Western Ontario, and the European Commission. For many years he has also been a consultant for Pay Sys Consultancy (Frankfurt) with a focus on card payments. Academic research has mainly addressed cash and cash-less payments, two-sided markets, monetary economics and exchange rates. Currently, he works on a Bundesbank project on the costs and benefits of cash. Professor Franz Seitz teaches Economics with a special focus on Monetary Policy and Financial Markets at Weiden Technical University of Applied Sciences. He is also one of the leading members of the “Aktionskreis: Stabiles Geld”. Before his professorship, he worked at the Deutsche Bundesbank in the division Money, Credit and Capital Markets. Professor Seitz is author of numerous articles in national and international journals. His textbook “European Monetary Policy: Theory, empirical applications and practice” (“Europäische Geldpolitik: Theorie, Empirie und Praxis”) has become a standard book in German speaking countries. Additionally, one research focus is the payment system and cash in circulation. For many years now, Professor Seitz is acting as a consultant in different projects together with the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank.