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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.

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Part I: Fiscal and Monetary Policy. 1. Measuring Money in The Netherlands; N.G.J. Janssen, C.J.M. Kool. 2. The Need for Lower Taxes in the European Union; A. Knoester. 3. Control and Management of Government Expenditure; Institutional Structure of Budget Decision-Making; J.K.T. Postma. 4. Budgetary Control: Goodhart´s Law in Government Finances? A.H.E.M. Wellink. Part II: International Institutions and International Economic Policy. 5. The Future of the Fund; J. de Beaufort Wijnholds, F.A. Schilthuis. 6. European Monetary Integration and its Political Background; A. Szász. 7. Economic And Monetary Union and the Outsiders; N. Thygesen. Part III: The Future of International Banking and the Financial Sector in The Netherlands. 8. The Competition Between Funds and Banks; P. Korteweg. 9. Trends in Banking: The Strategic Agenda; C. Maas. 10. The Future of International Banking: The ABN AMRO View; P.J. Kalff. Part IV: Taxation and Reforms in the Dutch Tax System. 11. Tax Reform in The Netherlands, 1985-1995; C.A. de Kam. 12. Towards Sustainable Taxation; W.A. Vermeend. 13. It Does Matter which Side of the Labour Market is Taxed; J. Muysken, A.P. van Veen.

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