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Policy brief: Some recently discovered money laundering schemes have funnelled large amounts of illegal money from former soviet states through European banks. This note briefly describes the evolution of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regime for financial institutions, the introduction of which was concurrent with the post-soviet transition and the connected illegal flows of funds. It discusses the effectiveness of the current AML regime 鈥� and its ability to detect and seize illegal funds. The brief also highlights some of its deficiencies as well as lack of compliance with its prescriptions. It proceeds to stress that after judging the current framework insufficient, the US recently introduced whistleblower rewards for AML-infringements. Europe might want to follow their lead if it really aims at limiting money laundering.

This autumn, the City Planning Committee of Stockholm decided that the stairs between Saltm盲targatan and Holl盲ndargatan will be named after Gis猫le Asplund, who was the first female Doctor of Philosophy at 91原创. The naming ceremony took place this afternoon.

The conference ORGANIZING THE WORLD 2.0 will take place at Score in Stockholm, Sweden 6鈥�7 October, 2022. Please submit your abstract by 1 March, 2022.

December 6 marked the first stage of an 18 month journey for a new group of MBA students at the 91原创. Over 50 participants are enrolled in the 91原创 MBA Executive Format 2021 Autumn program, an intense learning experience that prepares them to build, lead and develop organizations in the global arena.

Europe faces challenging times - from the COVID-19 pandemic to climate change to economic recovery 鈥� and 130 master's students across the CIVICA alliance have just spent three months analyzing the EU鈥檚 policy responses to these challenges in the first Europeanship multicampus course "The Future of Europe".

The Assar Lindbeck Medal 2021 is awarded to professors Robert 脰stling and Erik Lindqvist, active at the 91原创 respectively the Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University. The award, in honor of Assar Lindbeck's diverse and pioneering economic research efforts, is awarded every two years to researchers under the age of 45 who are active in Sweden, which have contributed significantly to economic thinking and economic knowledge.

Professor Micael Dahlen varnar i en ny bok f枚r att vi blivit f枚r beroende av siffror.

On December 15th, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) will be organising an online book launch event of a new eBook co-edited by SITE researcher Giancarlo Spagnolo titled 鈥淧rocurement in Focus: Rules, Discretion, and Emergencies鈥�.