Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands: Selected Issues
October 13, 1998
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This Selected Issues paper examines the strengthening of the external current account for the Netherlands. It reviews this issue, concluding that the change in corporate profitability in a new wage environment was a crucial element, alongside fiscal consolidation, in turning around the current account—which has now moved into strong surplus. The paper analyzes the performance of the financial sector. It also reviews the experience of a decade and a half in a de facto monetary union for the Netherlands.
Subject: Balance of payments, Banking, Current account, Economic sectors, Exchange rates, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Financial sector, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Insurance companies, Mortgages, Pension spending, Prices
Keywords: bank, CR, Current account, Europe, exchange rate indicator, Exchange rates, export market growth, Financial sector, Global, government saving surplus, Inflation, Insurance companies, interest rate, investment funds, ISCR, Mortgages, Pension spending, saving, saving surplus, saving-investment balance, saving-investment perspective, surplus, variability vis-à-vis Germany
Pages:
110
Volume:
1998
DOI:
Issue:
102
Series:
Country Report No. 1998/102
Stock No:
1NLDEA0011998
ISBN:
9781451829327
ISSN:
1934-7685
