This paper presents a basic model by which a representative agent chooses how to allocate his savings optimally between money of legal origin and dirty money. It analyses the welfare of such an economy as a result of money laundering, as well as the conditions to reduce the incentives to...

In this paper the efficiency of the confiscation as a tool against organized crime is studied by using a general equilibrium model that considers the existence of a representative criminal organization that generates profits that need to be laundered. The main result of the paper shows that if...