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Money Laundering as a Financial Sector Crime - A New Approach to Measurement, with an Application to Italy

Ardizzi, Guerino - 2013

Anti-money laundering regulations have been centred on the “Know-Your-Customer” rule so far, overlooking the fact that criminal proceedings that need to be laundered are usually represented by cash. This is the first study which tries to provide an answer to the question of how much of cash...

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Tax Evasion and Economic Crime. Empirical Evidence for Italy

Argentiero, Amedeo - 2015

This paper examines the impact of tax evasion on criminal activities in Italy. Precisely, we consider three types of crime particularly related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robberies, thefts and car thefts), frauds and usury. By using annual data for the Italian provinces...

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Does Tax Evasion Affect Economic Crime?

Argentiero, Amedeo - 2018

This paper examines the impact of tax evasion on criminal activities in Italy. Specifically, we consider three types of crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury. We estimate a dynamic panel using annual data from...

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On the Incidence of a Financial Transactions Tax in a Model with Fire Sales

Bierbrauer, Felix - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies the impact of a financial transactions tax on a financial market where financial institutions trade with each other. Assets are marked to the market and financial institutions with negative equity are forced out of business. There are two main results: First, if all banks have...

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Did Globalization Influence Credit Market Deregulation?

Eppinger, Peter - 2015

We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of the Fraser Institute. The results from both...

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Politics, Unemployment, and the Enforcement of Immigration Law

Makowsky, Michael D.; Stratmann, Thomas - CESifo - 2012

Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of … congressional oversight, i.e., legislative involvement, determines the bureaucratic immigration enforcement process. We examine the … determinants of decisions made at each stage of regulatory enforcement for over 40,000 audits from 1990 to 2000. This includes an …

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The War on Illegal Drugs in Producer and Consumer Countries: A Simple Analytical Framework

Mejía, Daniel - CESifo - 2008

demand for drugs) and enforcement policies (aimed at reducing the production and trafficking of drugs), and shows how the …

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Does State Aid for Broadband Deployment in Rural Areas Close the Digital and Economic Divide?

Briglauer, Wolfgang - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on...

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The Regulator's Trade-Off : Bank Supervision vs. Minimum Capital

Buck, Florian - 2013

We develop a simple model of banking regulation with two policy instruments: minimum capital requirements and … regulation. Therefore, countries are better off by harmonising regulation on an international standard …

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The Regulator's Trade-off: Bank Supervision vs. Minimum Capital

Buck, Florian; Schliephake, Eva - CESifo - 2012

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