Economic and Financial Crime, Sustainability and Good Governance
This book addresses the most widespread forms of financial crime today, namely corporate fraud, corruption, tax fraud, the shadow economy, informal entrepreneurship, money laundering, international informal capital flows, cybercrimes, and cryptocurrency scams. Given the rapid rise of digitalization, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a huge surge in financial crime, especially in the form of cybercrime, which affects people’s financial security. Hence, the aim of this book is to stress the connected nature of financial crime and good governance, in order to achieve the most positive, sustainable development of society.
The book analyzes financial crime in the context of digitalization. On the one hand, digitalization offers clear advantages in terms of reducing classical types of fraud such as tax evasion, corruption, the shadow economy, etc. On the other hand, digitalization offers new channels for criminals to gain illegal benefits when operating indigital space, e.g. through cybercrime, bank fraud, FinTech fraud, e-commerce fraud, etc. In this context, the term “digital shadow economy” has recently emerged in the literature as an expression of the types of fraud committed in digital space.In addition, the book explores issues concerning changes in regulations for various financial crimes around the world, statistics, and ways to combat digital crimes including punitive, preventive and other measures. Special attention is paid to cybercrime and cybersecurity issues, the goal being to raise readers’ awareness of these threats.Unterstütze den lokalen Buchhandel
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| Veröffentlichung: | 19.08.2023 |
| Seiten | 401 |
| Art des Mediums | E-Book [Kindle] |
| Reihe | Contributions to Finance and Accounting |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-34082-6 |
| ISBN-10 | 3031340825 |
Über den Autor
Monica Violeta Achim is affiliated at Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Finance Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She obtained her PhD. In the Accounting field on 2004, at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Since 2017, she has been full professor at Department of Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania. In the same year she became Phd supervisor in the field of Finance within Doctoral School of Economics, the same faculty. She teaches the disciplines “Diagnosis and Financial Analysis”, “Financial analysis in banks” and “Economic and financial crime” at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania. She has many research concerns in the area of economic and financial crime, business performances, and corporate governance. On February 2020, she won the Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research 2019, at Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, as a recognition of the hard work in the research activity.
Sorin Nicolae Borlea is affiliated at two Romanian universities as follow: University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics Science, Doctoral Scool of Economics, Oradea, Romania and ‘Vasile Goldis’ Western University of Arad, Faculty of Economics, Informatics and Engineering, Department of Economics, Arad, Romania. He obtained his Ph.D. in Finance on 2008 at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Since 2015, he has been full professor at “Vasile Goldiș” Western University of Arad, Faculty of Economics, Informatics and Engineering, Department of Economics, where he teaches disciplines related to the areas of Accounting & Finance. Since 2018 he has been a Phd. supervisor at Oradea University, Faculty of Economics, Doctoral School of Economics, Oradea, Romania, where he teaches the discipline “Economic and financial crime”.
