In the last years, the design of supervision against money laundering has become increasingly essential in agendas of governments through the creation of specialized agencies: the Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs). The economics of Anti Money Laundering (AML) suggested that the Financial model...

We analyze recent trends in, and determinants of, financial supervisory governance. We first calculate levels of supervisory independence and accountability in 55 countries. The econometric analysis of the determinants indicates that the quality of public sector governance plays a decisive role...