How to dodge drowning in data? Rule- and risk-based anti money laundering policies compared

Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 953-985

  Unger, Brigitte ^a   Van Waarden, Frans ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Money laundering

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649139963     PISSN: 15555879     EISSN: 15555879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1555-5879.1423     Document Type: Article

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