Research Handbook on Money Laundering

Although the practice of disguising the illicit origins of money dates back thousands of years, the concept of money laundering as a multidisciplinary topic with social, economic, political and regulatory implications has only gained prominence since the 1980s. This groundbreaking volume offers original, state-of-the-art research on the current money laundering debate and provides insightful predictions and recommendations for future developments in the field.The contributors to this volume - academics, practitioners and government representatives from around the world - offer a number of unique perspectives on different aspects of money laundering. Topics discussed include the history of money laundering, the scale of the problem, the different types of money laundering, the cost to the private sector, and the effectiveness of anti-money laundering policies and legislation. The book concludes with a detailed and insightful synthesis of the problem and recommendations for additional steps to be taken in the future. Students, professors and practitioners working in economics, banking, finance and law will find this volume a comprehensive and invaluable resource. Contributors: H. Addink, A. Argentiero, M. Bagella, R.W. Baker, J. Biggins, J. Brettl, A. Buehn, F. Busato, P. Costanzo, S. Dawe, I. Deleanu, J. Ferwerda, L. Groot, T. Krieger, M. Levi, D. Masciandaro, K.J. McCarthy, D. Meierrieks, B. Mühl, E. Nowotny, T. Pietschmann, P. Reuter, F. Schneider, M. Stouten, A. Tilleman, L. Tromp, B. Unger, M. van den Broek, D. van der Linde, P.C. van Duyne, V. van Kommer, J. van Koningsveld, I. van Rossum, F. van Waarden, J. Vervaele, B. Vettori, J. Walker, M. von und zu Liechtenstein, J.S. Zdanowicz

Table of Contents:
Contents: Preface Brigitte Unger and Daan van der Linde PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction Brigitte Unger PART II: THE HISTORY OF MONEY LAUNDERING 2. Money Laundering Regulation: From Al Capone to Al Qaeda Brigitte Unger PART III: THE PROBLEM 3. The Effects of Money Laundering Joras Ferwerda 4. Money Laundering and its Effects on Crime: A Macroeconomic Approach Donato Masciandaro 5. Money Laundering, Drugs and Prostitution as Victimless Crimes Loek Groot 6. The Costs of Fraud Michael Levi 7. Terrorism: Causes, Effects and the Role of Money Laundering Tim Krieger and Daniel Meierrieks PART IV: WHO IS THREATENED BY LAUNDERING ACTIVITIES? 8. Measuring Money Laundering Threat Jakub Brettl 9. Conducting National Money Laundering or Financing of Terrorism Risk Assessment Stephen Dawe 10. Why Do Some States Tolerate Money Laundering? On the Competition for Illegal Money Killian J. McCarthy 11. Money Laundering and Small States: The Practical Experience of Liechtenstein Prince Michael von und zu Liechtenstein 12. The Role of Small States for Financial Market Integrity: Austria Ewald Nowotny PART V: THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM 13. Measuring Global Money Laundering: The ‘Walker Gravity Model’ John Walker and Brigitte Unger 14. A Preliminary Attempt to Estimate the Financial Flows of Transnational Crime Using the MIMIC Method Andreas Buehn and Friedrich Schneider 15. The Scale of the Global Financial Structure Facilitating Money Laundering Raymond W. Baker 16. Efforts of the UN to Find Out About Major Routes of Drugs and Drug Money Thomas Pietschmann 17. Using Dynamic Macroeconomics for Estimating Money Laundering: A Simulation for the EU, Italy and the United States Michele Bagella, Francesco Busato and Amedeo Argentiero 18. Are Estimates of the Volume of Money Laundering Either Feasible or Useful? Peter Reuter 19. Crime-Money and Financial Conduct Petrus C. van Duyne PART VI: WAYS TO LAUNDER 20. International Trade Mispricing: Trade-based Money Laundering and Tax Evasion John S. Zdanowicz 21. Detecting Money Laundering in the Real Estate Sector Joras Ferwerda and Brigitte Unger 22. Cash Economy, Measuring the Tax Gap from the Tax Administrative Perspective Victor van Kommer 23. Is the Netherlands a Tax (H)eaven? Lotte Tromp, Iris van Rossum, Andreas Buehn and Victor van Kommer 24. Dirty Complexity: Money Laundering through Derivatives John Biggins 25. E-gaming, Money Laundering and the Problem of Risk Assessment Michael Levi PART VII: LEGISLATION OF MONEY LAUNDERING 26. The Risk-based Approach to Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing in International and EU Standards: What it is, What it Entails Paolo Costanzo 27. Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing from a Good Governance Perspective Melissa van den Broek and Henk Addink 28. Economic Crimes and Money Laundering: A New Paradigm for the Criminal Justice System? John Vervaele PART VIII: IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF AML 29. How to Dodge Drowning in Data? Rule- and Risk-based Anti-Money Laundering Policies Compared Brigitte Unger and Frans van Waarden 30. Reporting Duty for Lawyers versus Legal Privilege – Unresolved Tension Maaike Stouten and André Tilleman 31. Money Laundering – ‘You Don’t See It, Until You Understand It’: Rethinking the Stages of the Money Laundering Process to Make Enforcement More Effective Jan van Koningsveld 32. Access by Law Enforcement Agencies to Financial Data Burkhard Mühl 33. The Role of Information for Successful AML Policy Ioana Deleanu 34. Evaluating Anti-Money Laundering Policies: Where Are We? Barbara Vettori Index

About the Author :
Edited by Brigitte Unger, Utrecht University School of Economics, the Netherlands and former Director, Institute of Economic and Social Research WSI in Dusseldorf, Germany and Daan van der Linde, PhD candidate, Utrecht University School of Economics, the Netherlands