Author(s)

Frederick Betz

Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA.

One of the advantages of empirically-grounded theory is to provide a deeper understanding of natural events. This is true both of the physical and social sciences, and especially of economic theory. We examine an empirical event in economics in 2016, called the “Panama Papers”. Reports on the event provide material for an empirical case study about the international financial grid, focused upon the use of dummy corporations in “dark money” international-capital-flows. We analyze the case though a topological model of the international financial grid.

Financial Grid, Financial Markets, International Capital Flows, Tax Evasion

Betz, F. (2017) Model of the International Financial Grid and the Panama Papers. Theoretical Economics Letters, 7, 764-781. doi: 10.4236/tel.2017.74056.