The scale and impacts of money laundering The book gives an interdisciplinary overview of the state of the art of money laundering as well as describing the legal problems of defining and fighting money laundering. It then goes on to present a number of economic models designed to measure money laundering and applies these to measuring the size of laundering in The Netherlands and Australia. The book also gives an overview of techniques and potential effects of money laundering identified and measured so far in the literature. It adds to this debate by calculating the effects of laundering on crime and economic growth 1. Introduction 2. Defining money laundering Elena Madalina Busuioc 3. Ways of quantifying money laundering 4. Measuring money laundering for Australia and the Netherlands with Melissa Siegel and Joras Ferwerda 5. How money is being laundered with Madalina Busuioc 6. Short term effects of money laundering 7. Long term effects of money laundering 8. Conclusions.