Colella, Fabrizio; Maskus, Keith; Peri, Alessandro - 2024
Tighter money-laundering regulations in offshore financial havens may inadvertently spur incentives to launder money … domestically. Our study exploits regulations targeting financially based money laundering in Caribbean jurisdictions to uncover the … jurisdictions experienced an increase in business activities after the tightening of anti-money-laundering regulations. The effect …