Economic and financial crime is closely related to the changes and the development of societies. In this paper, we question whether the types of economic and financial crimes change as the society develops or not. For our purpose, we use the sample of 27 European Union member countries, for the 2005–2020 time period, which forms an unbalanced panel dataset. The main econometric method is represented by the Pooled OLS method for panel data. Our findings highlight that higher economic and sustainable development determines a reduction in the levels of corruption, shadow economy, and cybercrime. Additionally, we find that increased economic and sustainable development is related to higher levels of money laundering. These findings help governments to understand the way in which various types of economic and financial crimes unfold within different contexts of economic development, in order to implement specific policies for reducing the general level of crimes.

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社会发展对经济和金融犯罪的影响。欧盟成员国案例研究

经济金融犯罪与社会的变化和发展密切相关。在本文中，我们质疑经济和金融犯罪的类型是否随着社会的发展而变化。出于我们的目的，我们使用了 27 个欧盟成员国的样本，在 2005-2020 年期间形成了一个不平衡的面板数据集。主要的计量经济学方法以面板数据的 Pooled OLS 方法为代表。我们的研究结果强调，更高的经济和可持续发展决定了腐败、影子经济和网络犯罪水平的降低。此外，我们发现经济和可持续发展的增加与更高水平的洗钱有关。