Magic mirror in my hand�. how trade mirror statistics can help us detect illegal financial flows
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Keywords
Money laundering; illicit trade flows; mirror statistics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E26 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Informal Economy; Underground Economy
- F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
- K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MAC-2018-09-03 (Macroeconomics)
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