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The Impact of Gray-Listing on Capital Flows: An Analysis Using Machine Learning

By Mizuho Kida, Simon Paetzold

May 27, 2021

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Mizuho Kida, and Simon Paetzold. The Impact of Gray-Listing on Capital Flows: An Analysis Using Machine Learning, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

The Financial Action Task Force’s gray list publicly identifies countries with strategic deficiencies in their AML/CFT regimes (i.e., in their policies to prevent money laundering and the financing of terrorism). How much gray-listing affects a country’s capital flows is of interest to policy makers, investors, and the Fund. This paper estimates the magnitude of the effect using an inferential machine learning technique. It finds that gray-listing results in a large and statistically significant reduction in capital inflows.

Subject: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Balance of payments, Capital flows, Capital inflows, Crime, Foreign direct investment, Machine learning, Technology

Keywords: AML/CFT, Analysis using machine learning, Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Capital flows, Capital flows, Capital inflows, Coefficient estimate, Emerging market economies, Foreign direct investment, Global, Gray list, Gray-listing affect, Inferential machine learning technique, Machine learning, Machine learning

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    37

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2021/153

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2021153

  • ISBN:

    9781513582436

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941