Description
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.
