Offshore Financial Havens: Their Role in International Capital Flows

• Main Author: SUN, Zhixiang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: capital movements; international finance; investment; money laundering; offshore finance; Finance; Portfolio and Security Analysis
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/31; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The purpose of this paper is to study the role of offshore financial havens in international capital flows. We examine the effects of being a tax haven, a money laundering centre or an offshore financial centre (OFC), which often overlap. We want to see whether these places are used as entrepots (wh...