Both academic research and public policy debate around tax havens and offshore finance typically suffer from a lack of definitional consistency. Unsurprisingly then, there is little agreement about which jurisdictions ought to be considered as tax havens — or which policy measures would result...

This study investigates the association between money laundering control systems(MLCS) and tax haven use based on a sample of U.S. multinational financial corpora-tions (MFCs). We also examine the impact of external auditor specialization on theassociation between MLCS and tax haven use. We find...

Excessive financial secrecy facilitates illicit financial flows, which constitute a major developmental challenge for low-income economies and cause significant tax revenue losses for governments around the world. In this paper we estimate the semi-elasticity of cross-border financial assets to...