Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Université de Montréal

Research

shell companies money laundering tax evasion crime facilitation online illicit markets transnational crime

Latest papers

Assessing market competition and vendors' size and scope on AlphaBay.
The International journal on drug policy · 2018 · first author
Going international? Risk taking by cryptomarket drug vendors.
The International journal on drug policy · 2016

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Facilitating Crimes for Financial Gains: Understanding the Dynamics of the Online Market for Shell Companies
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$64,373
The Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$995,862

All 2 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Assessing market competition and vendors' size and scope on AlphaBay.

Paquet-Clouston M, Décary-Hétu D, Morselli C

The International journal on drug policy2018First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.01.003 PMID: 29414490

02

Going international? Risk taking by cryptomarket drug vendors.

Décary-Hétu D, Paquet-Clouston M, Aldridge J

The International journal on drug policy2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.06.003 PMID: 27453145

Facilitating Crimes for Financial Gains: Understanding the Dynamics of the Online Market for Shell Companies

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Paquet-Clouston, Masarah

Keywords: shell companies; money laundering; tax evasion; crime facilitation; online illicit markets; transnational crime

$64,373

The Human-Centric Cybersecurity Partnership

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Grants

Keywords: cybersecurity; privacy; democracy; regulation; standardization; resilience; elections; behaviour change; cybercrime; usable machines; evidence-based policies

$995,862

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Carlo Morselli

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2018

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: shell companies Dear Professor Paquet-Clouston, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Assessing market competition and vendors' size and scope on AlphaBay." (2018), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Facilitating Crimes for Financial Gains: Understanding the Dynamics of the Online Market for Shell Companies" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]