Dancing with the devil: Country size and the incentive to tolerate money laundering

International Review of Law and Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 244-252

  Gnutzmann, Hinnerk ^a   McCarthy, Killian J ^b   Unger, Brigitte ^c  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Money laundering; Policy competition; Systems competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956426938     PISSN: 01448188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.irle.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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