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This is basically just the theory behind becoming Danish, no? www.nber.org/papers/w33634

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Criminals wanting to formalize their proceeds is the point of money laundering www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

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Oh boy

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What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s? The employment rate of native workers went down noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly) Why? Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Gulags, crime, and elite violence: Origins and consequences of the Russian mafia" By Jakub Lonsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

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the problem with this isn't the blithe disregard for ethical concerns, because none of it will happen, the problem is that it's blatant bullshit and these people are not only in charge of their massive industry but being taken seriously by governments. fortune.com/2025/06/06/g...

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Contrarian take: this paper on aid and conflict actually shows aid is a good thing, because it empower communities to protest for better conditions (the other results don't look particularly convincing)! uol.de/f/2/dept/wir...

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🔴 @ec.europa.eu reportedly plans to remove the UAE from the EU’s high-risk list for money laundering. Again. Their justification? “Some progress” in judicial & law enforcement cooperation. That’s not nearly enough. ⬇️

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A great way for governments to signal their seriousness about fighting financial crime, while doing very little to actually fight financial crime, is to host big multilateral meetings about fighting financial crime www.linkedin.com/pulse/he-kha...

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A fantastic Day 1 at the Workshop on the Economics of Taxation! From corporate tax & offshore wealth to inheritance, inequality & tax incidence, researchers & PhD students are diving deep into the big questions. Co-organised with @fundacioieb.bsky.social!

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Looking forward to tomorrow for the Workshop on the Economics of #Taxation! 🗣️ Keynote speakers: @dinapomeranz.bsky.social & Youssef Benzarti 📅 June 3-4, 2025 📍 @ubeconomics.bsky.social Check out the full program ➡️ https://f.mtr.cool/qlpspgkmov

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🗣️ "Trusts are an obvious choice for those looking to hide assets, conceal suspect wealth and evade sanctions." @margotmollat.bsky.social spoke to @theguardian.com about our new analysis identifying trust-based property ownership across England and Wales. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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🚨The latest GI ACE newsletter is out now—featuring new research on civil society & state capture, events on Congo Hold-Up and shifting financial hubs, plus a deep dive into South Africa’s Zondo Commission. 🔗Read & subscribe: bit.ly/giacenewslet... #AntiCorruption #CorruptionResearch #StateCapture

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Hey, everyone has that moment in their life where they experiment with new things, like, I don't know, throwing hundreds of thousands of people off of their HIV meds, and it's really ok if it doesn't work out and you want to go back to what you know

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The CRS is one of the most ambitious policies ever implemented to fight tax evasion, but we still know little about its effectiveness. Exciting new data gathered and analysed by the EUTO team gives us a first glimpse at its coverage! @hjaltefb.bsky.social @mattcollin.bsky.social @andokl.bsky.social

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🚨New report alert 🚨 w/ Sarah Godar, Hjalte Boas, Carolina Moura and @andokl.bsky.social, we gather and analyize data from tax authorities in 16 countries on information they've received on offshore accounts via the OECD's Common Reporting Standard www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/...

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Economists have studied tariff evasion a lot in recent years What could use more study is whether very high tariffs not only create temporary informal networks and practices like these, but lead to persistence in evasion (as shippers get more sophisticated) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...

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Israel's continued interruption of aid to Gaza is a war crime of the highest order www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Over the past few years, several of us have been working with leaked data to study tax evasion & illicit financial flows more generally I really believe this kind of data can be used to write impactful, policy-relevant research. So we've packaged what we've learned so far to help others do the same

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🚨 New paper out! 🚨 🎁 "Safely Opening Pandora’s Box" offers a must-read roadmap for researchers using leaked data in empirical work. Ethics, legality, privacy – our latest WP tackles it all. 🔗 Check out the paper: www.taxobservatory.eu/fr/publicati... @mattcollin.bsky.social @andokl.bsky.social

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"Don't get in my way... I'll run right over you"

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Daredevil: Born Again on the tax and money laundering risks of checks notes freeports!

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Huge congratulations to @justsand.bsky.social and to Open Philanthropy. The perfect person for a historic challenge

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Sighing at a colleague is discriminatory, but not running around telling your colleagues that trans women are dangerous

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Guardian coverage here of new analysis by @transparencyuk.bsky.social on the use of trusts to hide the ownership of property. Our research found £2.5bn worth of real estate bought with suspicious wealth and held by trusts. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸 doi.org/10.1086/736698

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Some personal/professional news... After 14 (!) years, this was my last week at @cgdev.org Posted a longer thread on the other site, and will share more later on what's next. For now, just want to say thank you.

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I get this like every day My four month old daughter is half bald and has blue eyes, which is where, I think, the resemblance ends www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

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Our third #TheOffshoreTalks with @ebharrington.bsky.social and @chrisaltereco.bsky.social explored how offshore finance fuels economic crises and austerity, while also undermining democracy. 📺 Missed it live? Catch the full lecture now on our YouTube channel → youtu.be/WNE6ssttHP4

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Tariffs will be no more effective than existing measures if the EU is unwilling to deal with the same transshipment that is used to evade existing sanctions EU readies capital controls and tariffs to safeguard Russia sanctions - on.ft.com/4iXmkG9 via @FT

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From @wsj.com: Former Credit Suisse employees collectively stand to make up to $150 million for quietly telling U.S. authorities that the bank wasn’t living up to its pledge to stop helping Americans evade taxes by stashing cash and assets overseas.

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Please do not confuse the legal requirements for the crime of bribery with the concept of corruption.

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This is a helpful moment to restate a commonly accepted defintion of corruption, courtesy of @anticorruption.bsky.social "The abuse of entrusted power for private gain."

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🚀 We've kicked off our annual high-level event, “Competition or Cooperation: EU Tax Policies for Tomorrow! 🇪🇺 “The EU Tax Observatory has been instrumental in bringing evidence to the tax policy conversation.” 💬 Gerassimos Thomas, DG for Taxation and Customs Union 📢 Stay tuned!

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I generally disagree with this, but it IS true that if Usha Vance had continued in her career while JD left his to stay home with their three kids, American children as a whole would be better off www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

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