Essays on Money, Banking, and Regulation : Essays in Honour of C. J. Oort

__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. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Measuring Money in the Netherlands....Pages 3-25 The Need for Lower Taxes in the European Union....Pages 27-56 Control and Management of Government Expenditure: Institutional structure of budget decision-making....Pages 57-68 Budgetary Control: Goodhart’s Law in Government Finances?....Pages 69-90 Front Matter....Pages 91-91 The Future of the Fund....Pages 93-116 European Monetary Integration and its Political Background....Pages 117-123 Economic and Monetary Union and the Outsiders....Pages 125-145 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 The Competition between Funds and Banks....Pages 149-157 Trends in Banking: The Strategic Agenda....Pages 159-171 The Future of International Banking: The ABN Amro View....Pages 173-184 Front Matter....Pages 185-185 Tax Reform in the Netherlands, 1985–1995....Pages 187-215 Towards Sustainable Taxation....Pages 217-222 It Does Matter Which Side of the Labour Market is Taxed....Pages 223-248