Albertson Professor of InternationalPoliticalEconomy at the University of Puget Sound in Washington State and author of The Wine Economist blog, a few questions about the wine world in general.
Ronen Palan, a professor of internationalpoliticaleconomy and an expert on offshore wealth and tax havens at City University in London, believes that while Switzerland is "clearly suffering" from the pressure put on its private-wealth sector from the European Union and the U.S., Singapore is a "very secretive location" where many Asians in particular believe their wealth will be spared scrutiny from Western regulators.