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| Title & Link | Author & Link to Bibliography | Description (scroll to left to read) |
| Money laundering | M Levi, P Reuter – Crime and Justice, 2006 – journals.uchicago.edu | Techniques for hiding proceeds of crime include transporting cash out of the country, purchasing businesses through which funds can be channeled, buying easily transportable valuables, transfer pricing, and using “underground banks.” Since the mid-1980s … |
| Dirty money: The evolution of money laundering counter-measures | WC Gilmore – 1999 – ncjrs.gov | The first chapter provides an overview of the problem, as it notes that estimates of money from criminal activities range from 300 to 500 billion US dollars annually, money that is available for laundering. Such quantities of money, often linked with organized crime … |
| How big is global money laundering? | J Walker – Journal of Money Laundering Control, 1999 – emerald.com | Known incidents of money laundering involving large amounts of money generated from crime are of tremendous public interest and are consequently given wide publicity. A wide range of national and international agencies have attempted to quantify organised crime … |
| Macroeconomic implications of money laundering | PJ Quirk – Washington, Fondo Monetario Internacional, WP, 1996 – elibrary.imf.org | This paper reviews the main analytical, empirical, and policy issues related to the macroeconomic implications of money laundering. The paper discusses, first, how money laundering can be measured, given that it is unobservable, and reports cross-section … |
| Chasing dirty money: The fight against money laundering | P Reuter – 2005 – books.google.com | Originally developed to reduce drug trafficking, efforts to combat money foundering have broadened over the years to address other crimes and, most recently, terrorism. In this study,[the authors] look at the scale and characteristics of money laundering, describe and … |
| Money laundering: a new international law enforcement model | G Stessens – 2000 – books.google.com | This book gives a broad analysis of the legal issues raised by the international fight against money laundering. It offers an extensive comparative research of the criminal and preventive law aspects from an international perspective. Stessens portrays money laundering as a … |
| Money laundering: muddying the macroeconomy | PJ Quirk – Finance and Development, 1997 – search.proquest.com | IMF staff went to a small island country to assess economic developments. As they walked around the capital, they noticed a surprisingly large number of small banks (more than 100 in a country of less than 100,000 people). A year later, it was revealed that many of these … |
| Money laundering and its regulation | M Levi – The Annals of the American Academy of Political …, 2002 – journals.sagepub.com | This article examines definitions of” money laundering” and the conceptual and actual role its regulation plays in dealing with drug markets. If laundering is prevented, incentives to become major criminals are diminished. It identifies and critiques three aspects of harm … |
| Money laundering: the economics of regulation | D Masciandaro – European Journal of Law and Economics, 1999 – Springer | Economic research has not yet systematically undertaken the analysis of the existing interactions between criminal economy and financial markets. The present work belongs to a research field increasingly interested in such issues and focuses on the economic analysis of money laundering … |
| Money laundering: some facts | F Schneider, U Windischbauer – European Journal of Law and Economics, 2008 – Springer | This paper tackles the quite difficult topic of money laundering. After defining money laundering, and after explaining the three stages (steps), placement, layering and integration, the paper tries a quantification and estimation of the volume and development of … |
| Money laundering and the international financial system | V Tanzi – 1996 – ideas.repec.org | The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues … |
| Measuring Global Money Laundering:” The Walker Gravity Model” | J Walker, B Unger – Review of Law & Economics, 2009 – degruyter.com | Measuring global money laundering, the proceeds of transnational crime that are pumped through the financial system worldwide, is still in its infancy. Methods such as case studies, proxy variables, or models for measuring the shadow economy all tend to under-or … |
| Money laundering—a global obstacle | B Buchanan – Research in International Business and Finance, 2004 – Elsevier | One of the biggest obstacles to maintaining an effective operating international financial system is money laundering. A global phenomenon and international challenge, money laundering is a financial crime that often involves a complex series of transactions and … |
| An inquiry into money laundering tools in the Bitcoin ecosystem | M Möser, R Böhme, D Breuker – 2013 APWG eCrime …, 2013 – ieeexplore.ieee.org | We provide a first systematic account of opportunities and limitations of anti-money laundering (AML) in Bitcoin, a decentralized cryptographic currency proliferating on the Internet. Our starting point is the observation that Bitcoin attracts criminal activity as many … |
| Black finance: the economics of money laundering | D Masciandaro, E Takats, B Unger – 2007 – books.google.com | ” The recent dramatic wave of terrorist attacks has further focussed worldwide attention on the money laundering phenomena. The objective of this book is to offer the first systematic analysis of the economics of money laundering and its connection with terrorism finance … |
| Critical reflections on transnational organized crime, money laundering and corruption | ME Beare – 2003 – books.google.com | Transnational crime, organized crime, money laundering and corruption are four concepts that have gained and continue to gain an international and domestic profile. Is the information given to the public concerning these concepts distorted by the vested interests of … |
| The amounts and the effects of money laundering | B Unger, M Siegel, J Ferwerda, W de Kruijf… – Report for the Ministry of …, 2006 – ftm.nl | 0.4. The amount of money laundered is sizeable 0.5. Where is the criminal money being laundered and placed? 0.6. The Netherlands are a transit country of crime and criminal money 0.7. What are the effects of money laundering? 0.8. The long term dangers of money … |
| The consequences of money laundering and financial crime | J McDowell, G Novis – Economic Perspectives, 2001 – ncjrs.gov | Money laundering is seen as critical to the effective operation of transnational and organized crime. However, money laundering effects a country’s economy, government, and social well-being. This article briefly reviewed both the economic and social costs of money laundering … |
| Money laundering: A guide for criminal investigators | J Madinger – 2011 – books.google.com | Many changes have occurred in the twenty-five years that have passed since the enactment of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986. The law has been amended, new underlying crimes have been added, and court decisions have modified its scope. The Act remains an … |
| The hawala alternative remittance system and its role in money laundering | PM Jost, HS Sandhu – 2000 – peacepalacelibrary.nl | The components of hawala that distinguish it from other remittance systems are trust and the extensive use of connections such as family relationships or regional affiliations. Unlike traditional banking or even the’chop’system, hawala makes minimal (often no) use of any … |
| The fight against money laundering | H Geiger, O Wuensch – Journal of Money Laundering Control, 2007 – emerald.com | Purpose–To provide an economic view on the costs and benefits of anti‐money laundering (AML) efforts. Design/methodology/approach–Based on a international, comparative study conducted in Switzerland, Singapore and Germany, the authors outline the impact of AML … |
| Bitcoin and money laundering: mining for an effective solution | D Bryans – Ind. LJ, 2014 – HeinOnline | Technology forges ahead at a rapid pace, whether we like it or not. Criminals recognize this inevitability and use technological improvements to advance their craft,’committing crimes from half a world away in real time. Meticulous criminals also use technological … |
| Corruption and money laundering: a symbiotic relationship | D Chaikin, J Sharman – 2009 – Springer | |
| Financial havens, banking secrecy and money-laundering | JA Blum, M Levi, RT Naylor, P Williams – 1998 – amnet.co.il | The major money laundering cases coming to light in recent years share a common feature: criminal organizations are making wide use of the opportunities offered by financial havens and offshore centres to launder criminal assets, thereby creating roadblocks to criminal … |
| A typological study on money laundering | P He – Journal of Money Laundering Control, 2010 – emerald.com | Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to make objective descriptions on various money‐laundering techniques and to put forward countermeasures in order to combat money laundering more effectively and efficiently. Design/methodology/approach–This paper … |
| Reference guide to anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism | PA Schott – 2006 – elibrary.worldbank.org | This second edition of the Reference Guide is a comprehensive source of practical information on how countries can fight money laundering and terrorist financing. Aimed at helping countries understand the new international standards, it discusses the problems … |
| Money laundering policy | PC Van Duyne – Fears and Facts, 2003 – petrusvanduyne.nl | It is difficult to argue about the nature of smells. Some of them do not even have names. But one kind of smell has certainly been nominated and changed in our appreciation: the ‘moral smell’of money. Today the adage ‘money does not smell’does not apply any more. Now we … |
| Responding to Money Laundering | E Savona – 2005 – books.google.com | Responding to Money Laundering has its origin in the International Conference on Preventing and Controlling Money Laundering and the Use of Proceeds of Crime: A Global Approach organised by ISPAC, the International Scientific and Advisory Board of the United … |
| Dirty money: the evolution of international measures to counter money laundering and the financing of terrorism | WC Gilmore – 2004 – books.google.com | This is the third edition of this publication which explores key issues in the fast evolving field of money laundering and terrorist financing, and which has been restructured so as to fully reflect the high international priority given to tackling the financing of terrorism since … |
| Money laundering and globalization | P Alldridge – Journal of law and society, 2008 – Wiley Online Library | The article traces the various imperatives generated by the combination of the money laundering panic of the late 1990s with the advent of globalization. If there is to be an attempt legally to regulate laundering, it (laundering) must be a relatively serious offence … |
| Money laundering | N Morris-Cotterill – Foreign Policy, 2001 – JSTOR | From Moscow to Buenos Aires, money laundering scandals sap economies and destabilize governments. Policymakers blame crime cartels, tax havens, and new techniques like cyberlaundering. But dirty money long predates such influences. Without unified rules … |
| The economics of crime and money laundering: does anti-money laundering policy reduce crime? | J Ferwerda – Review of Law & Economics, 2009 – degruyter.com | Anti-money laundering policy has become a major issue in the Western world, especially in the United States after 9-11. Basically, all countries in the world are more or less forced to cooperate in the global fight against money laundering. In this paper, the criminalization of … |
| Dirty dealing: the untold truth about global money laundering, international crime and terrorism | P Lilley – 2003 – books.google.com | Praise and ReviewsEntertaining, well written and well presented.JOHN MULQUEEN, The Irish TimesPaints an alarming picture of the power and scale of todays crooked and corrupt financial world. Lilley has done his homework.THE IODS DIRECTOR MAGAZINESChoice of … |
| System and method for analyzing and dispositioning money laundering suspicious activity alerts | BJ Kloostra, C Dalvi, BN Behm – US Patent App. 12/258,784, 2009 – Google Patents | A system and method for analyzing, dispositioning, recording, reviewing, and managing potentially suspicious financial transactions. In some cases, the system models the steps taken by a subject matter expert to reach a conclusion so that a novice can follow similar … |
| A theory of “Crying Wolf”: The economics of money laundering enforcement | E Takáts – The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 2011 – academic.oup.com | The article shows how excessive reporting, called “crying wolf”, can dilute the information value of reports and how more reports can mean less information. Excessive reporting is investigated by undertaking the first formal analysis of money laundering enforcement … |
| Power and discourse in policy diffusion: Anti-money laundering in developing states | JC Sharman – International Studies Quarterly, 2008 – academic.oup.com | Twenty years ago not a single country had a policy against money laundering; currently, over 170 have very similar anti-money laundering (AML) policies in place. Why have so many countries with so little in common adopted the same policy so rapidly? This extensive … |
| Global financial crime: terrorism, money laundering and offshore centres | D Masciandaro – 2017 – books.google.com | The scope for financial crime has widened with the expansion and increased integration of financial markets. Money laundering, terrorism financing and tax crime have all changed in both nature and dimension. As new technologies reduce the importance of physical … |
| AI fights money laundering | J Kingdon – IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2004 – ieeexplore.ieee.org | The bank had approached Searchspace, formed by re- searchers from the Intelligent Systems Lab at University College London in 1993. It applies adaptive and learning- systems approaches to a range of business and finance tasks. However, until then, we had principally developed … |
| Transnational criminal organizations, cybercrime, and money laundering: a handbook for law enforcement officers, auditors, and financial investigators | JR Richards – 1998 – books.google.com | WRITTEN BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT PROFESSIONAL FOR OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL IN THE TRENCHES This book examines the workings of organized criminals and criminal groups that transcend national boundaries. Discussions … |
| Trade-based money laundering and terrorist financing | JS Zdanowicz – Review of law & economics, 2009 – degruyter.com | Money laundering can be defined, generally, as the process of concealing the existence, illegal source, or application of income derived from a criminal activity, and the subsequent disguising of the source of that income to make it appear legitimate. Deception is the heart of … |
| The tenuous relationship between the fight against money laundering and the disruption of criminal finance | MF Cuéllar – J. Crim. L. & Criminology, 2002 – HeinOnline | This article examines the fight against money laundering as a case study of the separation between an enforcement system’s objectives and performance. To launder money is to hide its illegal origin. The fight against money laundering is supposed to disrupt laundering in its … |
| Detecting money laundering and terrorist financing via data mining | JS Zdanowicz – Communications of the ACM, 2004 – dl.acm.org | The use of international trade to move money, undetected, from one country to another is one of the oldest techniques used to circumvent government scrutiny. Either overvaluing imports or undervaluing exports can achieve this transfer. If an imported prod- uct is overvalued, the foreign … |
| Money laundering regulation: the micro economics | D Masciandaro – Journal of Money Laundering Control, 1998 – emerald.com | The analysis of the interactions between the criminal economy and the financial markets has not yet been systematically studied by the economists. This study belongs to a current research interested in this area, ie the economic analysis of money laundering. The work is … |
| Money laundering: The crime of the’90s | GR Strafer – Am. Crim. L. Rev., 1989 – HeinOnline | In the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986,’codified at sections 1956 and 1957 of Title 18 of the United States Code, Congress for the first time attempted to define and prohibit a category of activity known colloquially as” money laundering.” During an election year frenzy … |
| Applying data mining in investigating money laundering crimes | Z Zhang, JJ Salerno, PS Yu – Proceedings of the ninth ACM SIGKDD …, 2003 – dl.acm.org | In this paper, we study the problem of applying data mining to facilitate the investigation of money laundering crimes (MLCs). We have identified a new paradigm of problems—that of automatic community generation based on uni-party data, the data in which there is no direct … |
| Turnover of organized crime and money laundering: some preliminary empirical findings | F Schneider – Public choice, 2010 – Springer | After a short literature review, the paper quantifies the turnover of organized crime with the help of a MIMIC estimation procedure for the years 1995 to 2006 for 20 highly developed OECD countries. The volume of turnover from organized crime was US-270billionintheyear1995forthese20OECDc … |
| Money laundering: an international challenge | LA Barbot – Tul. J. Int’l & Comp. L., 1995 – HeinOnline | In the words of South American drug barons,” dirty money is best passed through clean hands.” 1 Money laundering is often defined as” the process by which one conceals the existence, illegal source or illegal application of income, and then disguises that income to … |
| Money laundering and its regulation | A Chong, F Lopez‐De‐Silanes – Economics & Politics, 2015 – Wiley Online Library | The recent wave of terrorist attacks has increased the attention to money laundering activities, and the role played by the regulatory frameworks controlling feeder activities. We investigate empirically the determinants of money laundering and its regulation in close to … |
| Money laundering: a concise guide for all business | D Hopton – 2009 – books.google.com | Worldwide, anti-money laundering regulations and legislation have become one of the weapons of choice of governments that are fighting global terrorism and criminality. In this updated edition of Money Laundering, Doug Hopton explains how The Money Laundering … |
| Virtual money laundering: the case of Bitcoin and the Linden dollar | R Stokes – Information & Communications Technology Law, 2012 – Taylor & Francis | This paper presents an analysis of the money laundering risks of two virtual currencies, the Linden dollar, the in-world currency of the interactive online environment Second Life, and Bitcoin, an experimental virtual currency that allows for the transfer of value through peer-to … |
| Anti-Money Laundering: international law and practice | WH Muller, CH Kalin, JG Goldsworth – 2007 – books.google.com | Anti-Money Laundering is the definitive reference on money laundering and practice. First an outline will be given of the general approach taken by supra-national organisations like the United Nations and the European Council. Next the approach taken by international … |
| Crime, illicit markets, and money laundering | P Williams – Managing global issues: Lessons learned, 2001 – carnegieendowment.org | Phil Williams organized crime is perhaps best understood as the continuation of commerce by illegal means, with transnational criminal organizations as the illicit counterparts of multinational corporations. During the 1990s, transnational organized crime—and the … |
| Criminal finance: The political economy of money laundering in a comparative legal context | K Hinterseer – 2002 – books.google.com | Like it or not, money launderers are major players in the world’s economy. Their strategies constrain national economic policies and undermine financial institutions. With the advent of secure transfer technologies, and with the help of modern financial theories of derivatives … |
| A comparative guide to anti-money laundering | M Pieth, G Aiolfi – 2004 – academia.edu | Money laundering is the process by which criminals attempt to conceal the source and ownership of the proceeds of their illicit activities; if successful, the criminal maintains control and access to these funds when and where he chooses. The efforts to combat this … |
| Money laundering | FAT Force – Policy Brief July 1999, 1999 – bahamasb2b.com | The goal of a large number of criminal acts is to generate a profit for the individual or group that carries out the act. Money laundering is the processing of these criminal proceeds to disguise their illegal origin. This process is of critical importance, as it enables the criminal to … |
| Money Laundering: The Scope of the Problem and Attempts to Combat It | S Sultzer – Tenn. L. Rev., 1995 – HeinOnline | Money laundering is the process of taking the proceeds of criminalactivity and making it appear legal. Money laundering has been called the” lifeblood” of crime because, without cleansing the profits of crime, the criminal enterprise cannot flourish. While drug money … |
| Money laundering law: Forfeiture, confiscation, civil recovery, criminal laundering and taxation of the proceeds of crime | P Alldridge – 2003 – Bloomsbury Publishing | |
| Money laundering and financial means of organized crime: some preliminary empirical findings | F Schneider – Paolo Baffi Centre Research Paper, 2008 – papers.ssrn.com | After giving a short literature review, the paper tries a quantification of the volume of money laundering activities, with the help of a DYMIMIC estimation procedure for the years 1995 to 2006 for 20 highly developed OECD countries. The volume of laundered money was 273 … |
| Money‐Laundering: Estimates in Fog | PC Van Duyne – Journal of Financial Crime, 1994 – emerald.com | The paper examines certain problems in determining the extent of money‐laundering. The author first discusses the methodological problems inherent in assessing its volume. He then discusses two methods to estimate the extent of money‐laundering. One method is … |
