Excessive and useless reporting, called “crying wolf effect”, is a crucial shortcoming that any anti-money laundering (AML) design aims to address and fix. For this reason, in these years the AML policy has switched both in the US and in Europe from a rule- to a risk-based approach. This...

Focuses on the features of some countries that make them more likely to offer money laundering services, arguing that these tax havens are structurally different from other countries: they lack significant resources for trading internationally, which pushes them to generate income through a lax...

Examines the relationship between two recent developments in regulation and supervision of banking, financial and insurance markets: unification of supervision, and the establishment of financial intelligence units (FIUs) in many countries. Analyses FIUs, using a Financial Authorities...

In 2009 the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) launched its Financial Fair Play Regulations (FFPR) aimed at preventing professional football clubs from overspending in the quest of sporting success to the detriment of their long‐run financial sustainability. The rationale and the...