Working papers and projects
Unger, B. (2011) expert on Pietschmann, T., Walker, J. (2011) Estimating Illicit Financial Flows Resulting from Drug Trafficking and other Transnational Organized Crimes, Research Report for UNODC, Vienna
Unger, B., Ferwerda, J., Trouw, J., Nelen, H. and L. Ritzen (2010). Detecting Criminal Investment in the Dutch Real Estate Sector. Study prepared for the Dutch Ministry of Finance, Justice and Interior Affairs.
Ferwerda, J., I. Deleanu and B. Unger (2010) Revaluating the Tanzi-Model to Estimate the Underground Economy, Tjalling C. Koopmans Institute Discussion Paper Series nr: 10-04
Ferwerda, J., M. Kattenberg, H. Chang, B. Unger, L. Groot and J. Bikker (2009) A Gravity Equation for Trade and Trade Based Money Laundering, paper prepared for the XVIII International Tor Vergata Conference on Money, Banking, and Finance, Session E1: The Economics of Informal Sector: Money Laundering and Underground Economy, held at Tor Vergata University, Rome, December 2nd-4th, 2009
Unger, B. (2009) The Gravity Model for Measuring Money Laundering and Tax Evasion, Paper prepared for the Workshop on Macroeconomic and Policy Implications of Underground Economy and Tax Evasion, February 5-6, 2009 at Bocconi University Milan, Italy
Unger, B and F. van Waarden (2009) Attempts to Dodge Drowning in Data, Tjalling C. Koopmans Institute Discussion Paper Series nr: 09-19
Gilbert, N and B. Unger (2009) Do loans harm? The Effect of IMF Programs on Inequality, Tjalling C. Koopmans Institute Discussion Paper Series nr: 09-26
Unger, B and J. Ferwerda (2008) Regulating Money Laundering and Tax Havens: The Role of Blacklisting, Tjalling C. Koopmans Institute Discussion Paper Series nr: 08-12
McCarthy, K., F. van Doorn and B. Unger (2008) Globalisation, Tax Competition and the Harmonisation of Corporate Tax Rates in Europe: A Case of Killing the Patient to Cure the Disease?, Tjalling C. Koopmans Institute Discussion Paper Series nr: 08-13
Gnutzmann, H., K. McCarthy and B. Unger (2008) Dancing with the Devil: A Study of Country Size and the Incentive to Tolerate Money Laundering, Tjalling C. Koopmans Institute Discussion Paper Series nr: 08-18
Unger, B. (2007) Money Laundering, Tax Evasion, Capital Flight, Tax Havens, the Rule based and the Risk Based Approach: Keep it Simple, Paper prepared for the Transnational Institute Seminar on Money Laundering, Tax Evasion and Financial Regulation, 12th and 13th June 2007, Amsterdam, organized by Tom Blickman
Unger, B. (2006) The Amounts and Effects of Money Laundering, Dutch Ministry of Finance report, with the collaboration of dr. Greg Rawlings, drs. Melissa Siegel, Joras Ferwerda, BSc., Wouter de Kruijf, BSc., drs. Madalina Busuioc and drs. Kristen Wokke (link to the media attention for this publication)
Unger, B. and M. Siegel (2006) The Netherlands-Suriname Corridor for Workers’ Remittance, Prospects for Remittances when Migration Ties Loosen, Study prepared for the World Bank and the Dutch Ministry of Finance
Groezen, van, B., H. Kiiver and B. Unger (2006) Coordination of Pension Provision in a Divided Europe: The Role of Citizens’ Preferences, Tjalling C. Koopmans Institute Discussion Paper Series nr: 06-08
Unger, B. and G. Rawlings (2005) Competing for Criminal Money, Tjalling C. Koopmans Institute Discussion Paper Series nr: 05-26
Unger, B. (2003) Economic and Innovative Performance, in: Waarden, Frans van (ed.) (2003) Building Brides between Ideas and Markets. National Systems of Innovation and the Organization of the Idea-Innovation Chain. Part I. Summary Findings. Final report of a project financed by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Program (Targeted Socio-Economic Research), Utrecht: Utrecht University, pp. 38-79
Unger, B. (2003) Institutions Supporting or Hampering Innovation, in: Waarden, Frans van (ed.) (2003) Building Bridges between Ideas and Markets. National Systems of Innovation and the Organization of the Idea-Innovation Chain. Part I. Summary Findings. Final report of a project financed by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Program (Targeted Socio-Economic Research), Utrecht: Utrecht University, pp. 125-156
Giesecke, S., S. Rossak, H. Oosterwijk and B. Unger (2003) Telecommunications and the Austrian Paradox, in: Waarden, Frans van (ed.) (2003) Building Bridges between Ideas and Markets. National Systems of Innovation and the Organization of the Idea-Innovation Chain. Part II. Country-Sector reports. Final report of a project financed by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Program (Targeted Socio-Economic Research), Utrecht: Utrecht University, pp. 24-75
Oosterwijk, H., S. Rossak and B. Unger (2003) Austrian Biotechnology—Where to Find on the Map?, in: Waarden, Frans van, (ed.) (2003) Building Bridges between Ideas and Markets. National Systems of Innovation and the Organization of the Idea-Innovation Chain. Part II. Country-Sector reports. Final report of a project financed by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Program (Targeted Socio-Economic Research), Utrecht: Utrecht University, pp. 203-231
Unger, B. (2002) Many a Mickle Makes a Muckle. Austria’s Silent Labour Market Reforms, conference paper for the project Welfare Systems and Management of the Economic Risk of Unemployment of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), European University Institute, Florence and the Istituto per lo Sviluppo della Formazione Professionale deiLavoratori (ISFOL), project directors Maurizio Ferrera and Martin Rhodes, Rome
Waarden, F. van, B. Unger, G. Schienstock, P. Tulkki, R. Kaiser, E. Grande, H. Oosterwijk (2002) Building Bridges between Ideas and Markets, project report for the European Commission
Unger, B. and M. Zagler (2000) Institutional and Organizational Determinants of Product Innovations, Vienna University of Economics and B.A., Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 74, November
Unger, B. (2000) Sozialpartnerschaft und wirtschaftliche Leistung im Vergleich 1970-2000, Projekt des Bundeskanzleramts: Institutionalisierung des Sozialen Dialogs in Rumänien, manuscript
Unger, B. and F. van Waarden (1994) Interest Associations and Economic Growth. A Critique of Mancur Olson s Rise and Decline of Nations, Centre for European Policy Research (CEPR) Discussion Paper, No. 894, April
Unger, B. and F. Van Waarden (1993) A Comparison of the Construction Industry in Europe, Characteristics, Governance, Performance and Future Perspectives, Working Paper of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, No. 18/January
Unger, B. and F. Van Waarden (1992) A Comparison of the Construction Industry in Europe, Characteristics, Governance, Performance and Future Perspectives, FINE-Project on the Future of Industries in Europe, Working Paper of the University of Konstanz, Faculty of Public Administration, November 1992
Klatzer, E. and B. Unger (1992) Will Internationalization Lead to a Convergence of National Economic Policies? Working Paper of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, No.12/June
Unger, B. (1991) Aspects of Fiscal Policy in the Transition Process? A Comment. OECD Conference on Medium Term Economic Assessment, BMF Vienna , October
