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Hide-seek-hide? The effects of financial secrecy on cross-border financial assets

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  • Petr Janský
  • Tereza Palanská
  • Miroslav Palanský

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Excessive financial secrecy facilitates illicit financial flows, which constitute a major developmental challenge for low-income economies and cause significant tax revenue losses for governments around the world. In this paper we estimate the semi-elasticity of cross-border financial assets to changes in financial secrecy and how it differs for countries at various income levels. We develop a new financial secrecy dataset for the 2011-20 period, which covers many specific policies in addition to the previously studied automatic information exchange.

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  • Petr Janský & Tereza Palanská & Miroslav Palanský, 2022. "Hide-seek-hide? The effects of financial secrecy on cross-border financial assets," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-9, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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