Banking Secrecy and Global Finance: Economic and Political Issues

Introduction
1.1. Is the era of banking secrecy over?
1.2. Banking secrecy: economics and politics
1.3. Banking secrecy, regulation and supervision
1.4. Banking secrecy and international financial markets

1. Banking Secrecy: Economics and Politics
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Banking secrecy: microeconomics
1.3. Banking secrecy: empirics
1.4. Banking secrecy: white macroeconomics
1.5. Banking secrecy: black macroeconomics
1.6. Banking secrecy and black economy: empirics
1.7. Banking secrecy: gray macroeconomics

2. Banking Secrecy, Regulation and Supervision
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Secrecy and the specialness of banking
2.3. Combating secrecy: information and incentives
2.4. Combating secrecy: the relevant players
2.5. Combating secrecy: a field experiment
2.6. The financial intelligence unit: economics and politics
2.7. Financial intelligence units: institutional models
2.8. Financial FIUs, supervisory architecture and central banking
2.9. The future of the FIUs: the role of September 11

3. Banking Secrecy and International Financial Markets
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Capital flows and national regulation: the Lucas paradox
3.3. Explaining the Lucas paradox
3.4. Testing the Lucas paradox
3.5. Behind the Lucas paradox: banking secrecy, soft regulation and capital flows
3.6. New frontiers against banking secrecy: the beggar-thy-neighbor regulation