Measuring global money laundering: "The Walker Gravity Model"

Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Walker, John ^a   Unger, Brigitte ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Money laundering

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649104422     PISSN: 15555879     EISSN: 15555879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1555-5879.1418     Document Type: Article

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