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This paper aims to present the concept of fiscal competition and it’s impact on the “brain-drain” phenomenon, on one side, and, on the other side, the impact of fiscal competition on the financial privacy, through the measures taken at european and world wide levels to fight against the...
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Weaknesses in the enforcement of regulation have been targeted by the G-20 as a priority concern for reform. But enforcement efforts in securities markets have proven difficult and uneven. The recent scandal in the United States, wherein a Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Bernard Madoff went...
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This paper presents Detailed Assessment of the United States’s implementation of the International Organization of Securities Commissions’ Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation. The general preconditions for effective securities regulation in the United States are...
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is exposed to money laundering (ML) and financing of terrorism (FT) risk related to drug trafficking and international criminal groups. The financing of terrorism has also been criminalized and is largely in conformity with the Suppression of the Financing of...
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same unit operating costs. This provides an incentive for users to shift payments to the more risky network in normal times …
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We investigate the role of settlement in a dynamic model of a payment system where the ability of participants to perform certain welfare-improving transactions is subject to random and unobservable shocks. In the absence of settlement, the full information first-best allocation cannot be...
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This paper examines the electronification of noncash payments in Finland and the extent to which noncash payment means … are used as substitutes for cash. We model the processes of cash substitution and electronification of payments as 'S … electronification process is clearly ongoing as regards larger-value bill payments, for small-value point-of-sale payments we seem to …
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The goal of SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) is to facilitate the emergence of a competitive, intra-European market by … making cross-border payments as easy as domestic transactions. With cross-border inter-operability for electronic payments …, card transactions will increasingly replace cash and checks for all types of payments. Using different methods, we estimate …
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This analysis utilises a model of production under risk estimated on Finnish farm-level data to measure farmers’ risk attitudes in a changing policy environment. We find evidence of heterogeneous risk preferences among farmers, as well as notable changes over time in farmers’...
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