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Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …

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A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas: Revisited

Flood, Robert P.; Aizenman, Joshua - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

Starting with Friedman and Mundell the academic literature has conducted a high level debate concerning the design of cross-country monetary arrangements. That debate has become very complex and the data requirements necessary for appropriate application of the principles developed are far...

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Do Workers' Remittances Promote Economic Growth?

Gapen, Michael T.; Chami, Ralph; Montiel, Peter; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

Over the past decades, workers' remittances have grown to become one of the largest sources of financial flows to developing countries, often dwarfing other widely-studied sources such as private capital and official aid flows. While it is undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and...

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Remittances; An Automatic Output Stabilizer?

Hakura, Dalia; Chami, Ralph; Montiel, Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

Remittance flows appear to be falling worldwide for the first time in decades as a result of the ongoing financial turmoil. It is suspected that the drop in remittance income into developing and emerging markets will have a destabilizing effect on these economies. The paper estimates the impact...

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Public Universities, Tuition and Competition: A Tiebout Model

Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

A simple Tiebout model is presented where states provide university education to both immobile and mobile students. State governments choose the quality of public universities by trading off the value of education for the local immobile student population and the costs, net of tuition revenues,...

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Remittances and Institutions; Are Remittances a Curse?

Dagher, Jihad; Chami, Ralph; Montiel, Peter; Abdih, Yasser - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper addresses the complex and overlooked relationship between the receipt of workers' remittances and institutional quality in the recipient country. Using a simple model, we show how an increase in remittance inflows can lead to deterioration of institutional quality - specifically, to...

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Macroeconomic Consequences of Remittances

Fullenkamp, Connel; Cosimano, Thomas F.; Gapen, Michael T. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Given the large size of aggregate remittance flows (billions of dollars annually), they should be expected to have significant macroeconomic effects on the economies that receive them. This paper directly addresses the two main issues of interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how...

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Workers' Remittances and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate; Theory and Evidence

Chami, Ralph; Barajas, Adolfo; Montiel, Peter; Hakura, Dalia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

This paper investigates the impact of workersâ€™ remittances on equilibrium real exchange rates (ERER) in recipient economies. Using a small open economy model, it shows that standard "Dutch Disease" results of appreciation are substantially weakened or even overturned depending on: degree...

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