I Fiscal and Monetary Policy -- 1 Measuring Money in the Netherlands -- 2 The Need for Lower Taxes in the European Union -- 3 Control and Management of Government Expenditure: Institutional structure of budget decision-making -- 4 Budgetary Control: Goodhart's Law in Government Finances? -- II International Institutions and International Economic Policy -- 5 The Future of the Fund -- 6 European Monetary Integration And Its Political Background -- 7 Economic and Monetary Union and the Outsiders -- III The Future of International Banking and the Financial Sector in the Netherlands -- 8 The Competition between Funds and Banks -- 9 Trends in Banking: The Strategic Agenda -- 10 The Future of International Banking: The ABN AMRO View -- IV Taxation and Reforms in the Dutch Tax System -- 11 Tax Reform in the Netherlands, 1985-1995 -- 12 Towards Sustainable Taxation -- 13 It Does Matter Which Side of the Labour Market is Taxed.

Essays on Money, Banking and Regulation honors the interests and achievements of the Dutch economist Conrad Oort. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 - Fiscal and monetary policy - reviews a variety of topics ranging from the measurement of money to the control and management of government expenditures. Part 2 - International institutions and international economic policy - looks at the international dimension of monetary and fiscal policy, with extensive discussion of the International Monetary Fund and the European Monetary Union. Part 3 - The future of international banking and the financial sector in the Netherlands - is an insider's view of the strategic choices facing financial institutions in the near future. Finally, Part 4 - Taxation and reforms in the Dutch tax system - is closest to Oort's research and practice since he has become known as an architect of the 1990 Dutch tax reform; this part is dedicated in particular to the tax reforms suggested by Oort.