Jurgen von Hagen is Professor of Economics, University of Bonn, Germany, and Visiting Professor, Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, with a Ph.D. from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn and teaches M.B.A. macroeconomics at Indiana University. He taught economics at Indiana University, the Universitat Mannheim, Germany, and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn. von Hagen has worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis and the European Central Bank and has been a consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Commission, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Deutsche Bundesbank, the Bank of Japan, and governments in Europe and beyond. Von Hagen's publications include over 90 articles in refereed professional journals and over forty monographs.