The book “Money laundering phenomenon – foundations, trends, impact and governance in banking industry” explores foundation, models (methods) to measure money laundering, trends, auditing Anti-Money Laundering structures in banking industry, AML risk assessment, impact/effects of money laundering, governance, and regulatory point of view.

The book includes some models that have been used to measure the amount of money laundering, respectively the effect of money laundering in various macroeconomic variables such as economic growth, consumption, investment, government expenditure, export and import. Moreover, there are presented some trends that may dominate in the AML field for coming years.

The strengthening of international cooperation in the field of anti-money laundering have given power to international organisations to recommend mitigating measures, standards and principles and applying them in practise, this is why in the book a special chapter is dedicated to international bodies and organisations to fight money laundering phenomenon.

Due to high importance of the AML risk assessment, as a risk management mechanism framework, a specific chapter is dedicated to it.

A special attention is dedicated to the auditing of AML structures in banking and the role of audit in general to AML field.

Last, but not least, in the book a chapter is dedicated to determinants of informal economy, since money laundering and informal economy are interconnected and needs to be studied as one of the challenges for countries.

We believe our book contributes to current literature on money laundering phenomena and that it is important for bankers, policy makers, strategists, academics, and students.

Financial time series including high frequency structures like jumps, spikes and stochastic volatility are usually modeled in an ad-hoc manner by stochastic differential equations together with Levy processes. Estimating the parameters and determining the jump size distributions do not have a precise and universally accepted method. Under these circumstances, complexities and confusions usually arise. This book, approaches to this issue from a very different angle through introducing an autocorrelation one process together with finite number of Fourier series terms. Introduction of Fourier series to estimate the dynamics of the process is not done in an ad-hoc manner or as done before in dealing with seasonality. Here the moving average is transformed to a “moving and fluctuating” average by the help of Fourier series. Instead of adding jump structures to the model which makes the parameter estimation quite cumbersome, our model in discrete time can easily be transformed to a well-known mean reverting continuous time process. Moreover, our alternative model turned out to be a quite powerful and accurate forecasting technique.

This book is about economic growth and development through a new way of analysis. It is a research that explains many phenomena seen in the growth process such as productivity, economic stagnation, under-investment, ineffectiveness of foreign aid, wage trends, factor flows and concentrations, technology adoption, and convergence by “relational analysis”.

Relational analysis is a general alternative analysis that focuses on the relationships between factors and uses their vital consequences to extract knowledge rather than ignore them artificially and fatally. It emphasizes that there are important interrelationships between factors such as complementarity, substitution, embodiment, directing, input-output, and facilitation. Taking into account the relations enable to get more complete and accurate answers to important questions, especially in applied works that require real predictions such as forecasting and policy formulation. The analysis can be fruitfully applied in any field, and as the growth analysis shows it fundamentally enriches the ideas, and protect from misleading assumptions.

In the book the readers will find:

– Origins and alternative definitions of complementarity and substitutions,

– Eleven implications of these relationships for economic growth and development,

– Many explanations and references for inferences regarding growth accounting, poverty traps and thresholds, multiple eqilibria, obsolescence, financial development, growth accelerations, imitations and barriers, and empirical anaysis.

The book is for anyone looking for an alternative way to learn about the basics of the growth process. Researchers, students, and staffs at universities and research institutions and other social scientists in government, business, international organizations should greatly benefit from reading the book.

2007 yılı sonundan itibaren gelişmiş ülkeleri etkisi altına alan sistemik kriz, o dönemde uygulanmakta olan para politikası ve ihtiyati önlemlerin sorgulanmasına yol açmıştır. Benzer bir krizin gelecekte tekrar yaşanmaması için gereken politikalar üzerine düşünülmüş ve kriz öncesinde geçerli olan uygulamalar yerini finansal istikrarı ön plana alan yeni bir düzene bırakmıştır.

Bu kitap söz konusu yeni düzende, para politikası ve makro ihtiyati politikaların özellikle yükselen piyasa ekonomilerinde parasal ve finansal istikrarsızlıkla mücadeledeki rolünü irdelemektedir. İlk bölüm, makro ihtiyati politikanın ortaya çıkışı ve uygulanmasıyla beraber ortaya çıkan zorluklara karşı alınan önlemler üzerine yapılan tartışmaları ele almaktadır. İkinci bölüm, yükselen piyasa ekonomilerine özgü şoklardan kaynaklanan finansal kırılganlığa karşı para politikası ve makro ihtiyati politikanın tepkisini genel denge modelleri çerçevesinde incelemektedir. Üçüncü kısımda ise bu teorik analiz, örnek yükselen piyasa ekonomilerindeki farklı uygulamaların incelenmesi ve gelişmiş ülke uygulamaları ile karşılaştırmasıyla tamamlanmıştır. Son bölümde, Türkiye2nin finansal istikrarsızlıkla mücadele etmek ve sistemik krizi önlemek üzere uyguladığı para politikası ve makro ihtiyati politika incelenmiştir.

Analitik ve kurumsal çerçeveyi çizerken, aynı zamanda somut parasal ve finansal istikrar politikaları örneklerine yer veren bu kitap, genç araştırmacıları finansal makroiktisat literatürüyle tanıştırmayı hedeflemektedir. Ayrıca kitapta sunulan veriler ve ülke örnekleri güncel iktisadi olaylara merak duyan her kesimden okuyucuya hitap etmektedir.