Research on illicit financial flows presented at the Early Researchers Consortium in Accounting

The Accounting Research Groups at the UPF Barcelona School of Management (Spain), Free University of Bolzano (Italy) and University of Padua (Italy) organise the fifth edition of the Accounting Summer Camp in Barcelona on July 13-15 2022. Researcher Rohit Reddy Muddasani from the Vienna University of Economics and Business presents a UNU-WIDER Working Paper in the event.

The Accounting Summer Camp consists of two events: an Early Researcher Consortium and a JLFA conference (Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting). Rohit Reddy Muddasani's presentation takes place at the Early Researcher Consortium. At the Consortium meeting the early career researchers attend Masterclasses held by Prof Eva Labro, Prof Shiva Rajgopal and Prof Stefano Cascino, and present their working papers and get feedback from the senior faculty in residence. The topic of Rohit Reddy Muddasani's presentation is So close and yet so far: the ability of mandatory disclosure rules to crack down on offshore tax evasion.

The conference features reserch presentations and academic discussions, and a special policy session featuring presentations from policymakers and practicioners on tax policy and lessons learner.

The presentation is part of UNU-WIDER's Detecting and countering illicit financial flows project, which is one workstream under UNU-WIDER's programme on Domestic Revenue Mobilization (DRM). The DRM programme is financed by the Norwegian development co-operation agency Norad.