Focuses on the features of some countries that make them more likely to offer money laundering services, arguing that these tax havens are structurally different from other countries: they lack significant resources for trading internationally, which pushes them to generate income through a lax...

Deals with the relationship between migratory flows and financial flows from the viewpoint of economic analysis. Points out the differences between migrants and host populations as this relates to the demand for banking and financial services, for instance the importance to migrants of...

Examines the relationship between two recent developments in regulation and supervision of banking, financial and insurance markets: unification of supervision, and the establishment of financial intelligence units (FIUs) in many countries. Analyses FIUs, using a Financial Authorities...

Purpose – The aim of this research paper is to discuss the crucial difference between financial offshores and fiscal offshores. Design/methodology/approach – The paper combines narrative with argument and analysis. Findings – It is shown that the decision of a few countries and territories...

The analysis of the interactions between the criminal economy and the financial markets has not yet been systematically studied by the economists. This study belongs to a current research interested in this area, ie the economic analysis of money laundering. The work is organised as follows.

The objective of this paper is to illustrate the link between the effectiveness of the anti‐money laundering regulations and the characteristics of the compliance costs involved for banks. The work is set out as follows. The next section describes the economic framework, which starts with the...