Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119378 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Economics of Security Working Paper No. 52
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
The financial means of international terror and transnational organized crime organizations are analyzed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of terrorist and transnational organized crime organizations, their sources and the various methods they use. Third, an attempt is made to estimate the financial means of terror organizations with the help of a latent estimation approach (MIMIC procedure). The figures show that Al Qaeda and other terror organizations have sufficient financial means. Fourth, some remarks are made about the negative effects of terror on the economy in highly developed countries and some strategies are presented to combat (the financing) of terrorism.
Subjects: 
Financial flows of terrorist organizations
financial flows of transnational organized crime
Hawala banking
money laundering
transnational organized crime
terrorist organizations
kinds of terrorist financing
JEL: 
K42
H56
O17
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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