1. Introduction -- 2. Defining money laundering / Elena Madalina Busuioc -- 3. Ways of quantifying money laundering -- 4. Measuring money laundering for Australia and the Netherlands / with Melissa Siegel and Joras Ferwerda -- 5. How money is being laundered / with Madalina Busuioc -- 6. Short...

This paper investigates quantitatively the benefits from participation in the Economic and Monetary Union for individual Euro area countries. Using the synthetic control method, we estimate how real GDP per capita would have developed for the EMU member states, if those countries had not joined...