The Panama Papers: breaking the story of how the rich and powerful hide their money

Walsh-Führing, Marcus

doi:10.1093/ia/iiy059

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“…I observe that from the point of view of the most pressing sociopolitical crises of our time, the legal issues seem to be mostly unremarkable, mundane, and pedestrian and not uncharacteristic of what one would find in the recent convictions of contemporary politicians, heads of state, business executives, and corporations. 26,27 The absence of existential crises and international intrigue on this list is noteworthy.…”

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The Thousand Talents Program Prosecutions in Context

Berghel

2023

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onsiderable press coverage has been given to the efforts by China to appropriate selective U.S. science and technology advances for commercial advantage without the benefit of either commercial license or official permission. An overview of this issue may be found in a U.S. Senate 2019 report. 1 The authors of this Senate report claim that China uses more than 200 talent recruitment plans, most notably the Thousand Talents Plan, to illegally transmit information about U.S. research and technology advantages in exchange for "salaries, research funding, lab space, and other incentives." The repor t concludes that, "While China has a strategic plan to acquire knowledge and intellectual property from researchers, scientists, and the U.S. private sector, the U.S. government does not have a comprehensive strategy to combat this threat." For the past decade or so, the de facto U.S. government tactical plan, such that it is, has been to prosecute purported violators under whatever existing statutes seem to apply. A selective sample of these successful prosecutions is discussed here.

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The Thousand Talents Program Prosecutions in Context

Berghel

2023

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“…2 The biggest leak, the 2016 Panama Papers, consists of 11.5 million documents (2.6 TB of data) from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which, at the time, was the world's fourth largest provider of offshore incorporation services. In Figure 1 we show the count of incorporations by date from the combined ICIJ 2 (Bernstein 2017;Obermaier and Obermayer 2017) dataset, revealing the explosive growth in these types of legal arrangements. As we explain later, we are able to use our theoretical priors about the nature of financial offshoring to track it with much more precision than was previously possible.…”

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Offshore Capital and Onshore Discrimination: The Biased Effects of India's Anti-corruption Campaigns on Muslim Businesses

Kubinec¹,

Morse²,

Pandya³

2023

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Offshore capital flows are a substantively important dimension of international capital mobility. We use leaked data on the ownership of offshore shell companies to estimate Indian firms' propensity to move capital offshore, and we examine how the propensity to offshore varies with the religious identification of a company's board members. We find that when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s proportion of seats in a state's legislature increases by 10 percent, the proportion of Muslim-led companies that participate in offshoring declines by approximately 10 percent, while there is little if any reduction in offshoring among Hindu-led companies. We argue that this relationship is best explained by the BJP's anti-corruption initiatives and their much stronger effect on Muslim business owners compared to other ethnic and religious groups. We support this conclusion with an investigation of firm-level mechanisms and a sensitivity analysis of potential confounders.

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“…También existen las situaciones en que estos escándalos tienen un matiz mucho más geopolítico con los que se busca romper de alguna manera relaciones entre actores del SI o generar desconfianza entre estos para evitar posibles uniones que podrían amenazar la existencia y la subsistencia del grupo ilegal. El ciberespacio puede, como se ha visto, ser el terreno por el cual un conflicto híbrido se lleva a cabo en su totalidad y permite, a su vez, una mayor participación de otros entes del sistema que aun si no hacen parte del conflicto, se encuentran presentes para presenciarlo (Obermaier & Obermayer, 2016).…”

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Guerras irrestricta e híbrida en los desafíos a la seguridad y defensa nacionales

Fonseca-Ortiz¹,

Sierra-Zamora²

2020

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La disputa por la hegemonía regional ha conducido a los enemigos del modelo de democracia liberal al uso de múltiples estrategias desestabilizadoras que, enmarcadas en los modelos de guerra irrestricta e híbrida y la teoría de la revolución molecular, apuntan a la imposición de sus voluntades y la toma del poder. Estas estrategias caracterizadas por la adopción de medios convencionales y no convencionales en las que se diluyen las fronteras entre lo civil y lo militar, lo doméstico y lo internacional, la protesta social y la insurrección, transgrediendo las normas de la guerra, ponen en peligro la estabilidad de los sistemas de gobierno, la soberanía nacional y los derechos de las sociedades. De tal manera, los vínculos entre Estados totalitarios con grupos armados organizados, organizaciones del crimen transnacional, movimientos insurgentes y organizaciones terroristas configuran un panorama regional de alta volatilidad, incierto, complejo y ambiguo. Desde esta perspectiva, la nueva dimensión de la guerra ya no es territorial y el escenario de la guerra está fundamentalmente en la mente del adversario. No existen fronteras en la persecución y obtención privilegiada de los intereses que ya no son propiamente de los Estados o por lo menos están diluidos y se debaten en el campo de las ideologías y cambios de los sistemas políticos vigentes. El problema radica en que la naturaleza de la guerra cambia esencialmente de lo militar tradicional convencional o no tradicional y obliga a la redefinición de la estrategia operacional que sigue siendo importante en el campo de las ideologías.

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The Panama Papers: breaking the story of how the rich and powerful hide their money

Cited by 7 publications

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The Thousand Talents Program Prosecutions in Context

The Thousand Talents Program Prosecutions in Context

Offshore Capital and Onshore Discrimination: The Biased Effects of India's Anti-corruption Campaigns on Muslim Businesses

Guerras irrestricta e híbrida en los desafíos a la seguridad y defensa nacionales

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