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methodologies, this paper investigates empirically the determinants of money laundering and its regulation in over 80 countries by … additionally constructs specific money laundering regulation indices based on available information on laws and their mechanisms of … across countries; the results are robust to potential endogeneity of money laundering regulation. The relevance of historical …
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Proceeds from illicit activities percolate into the legal economy through several channels. We exploit international regulations targeting money laundering via the financial sector to identify the flows of “dirty money” into legitimate establishments: business-based money laundering...
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new regulation presented, on average, a 6.4 per cent drop in auto thefts by year compared to non-target ones. Other crimes …
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conceptualized as a form of algorithmic regulation or governance-by-data. Therefore, the implementation of personalized law requires …
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We ask whether regulation can usefully supplement litigation in a model of optimal social control of harmful …. We show that regulation can, in some circumstances, improve resource allocation. Regulatory preemption of litigation may …
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The article presents a novel dynamic setting to compare old – usury – and new – cryptocurrency – money laundering techniques and uses it for calibration to shed light on their relative role as an effective device for the criminal organizations to clean their illegal revenues. The...
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Qatar and Dubai have established financial centres which have been based upon the common law jurisdiction of England and Wales because of the advantages such a system can give to the development of their respective financial services industries. The Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) and the Dubai...
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Introduction : the challenge of terrorist financing / Thomas J. Biersteker and Sue E. Eckert -- Producing terror : organizational dynamics of survival / Jessica Stern and Amit Modi -- The evolution of al Qaeda / Rohan Gunaratna -- The social organization of terror in Southeast Asia : the case of...
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