The article models economic growth determinants in the Dominican Republic. The exercise considers a panel of 25 candidate explanatory variables observed during the last three decades of the twentieth century. The time series are selected on the basis of economic theory and previous findings in...

We use a gravity model to analyse the impact of exchange-rate volatility on the volume of bilateral international trade. Semiparametric regression methods are applied to the pooled data for over 200 countries. Our results indicate that volatility affects trade negatively although at very high...

This paper examines the impact of international labor migration on foreign bank presence in 30 Asian and Latin American countries. While it is well established that social and economic characteristics of the host economy influence entry by foreign banks, we test whether social and economic...

Open economy money demand functions for Singapore are estimated using quarterly data from 1973-1996. Variance decompositions derived from structural vector error correction models are used to test the effect of anticipated exchange rate movements and exchange rate uncertainty on money demand....

This chapter offers an overview of migration and remittance flows with respect to the Latin American and Caribbean region from the colonial period to the present. Themes that cross history are highlighted as are the reversals of trends. Emphasis is given to south–south migration, to the...