Gapen, Michael; Cosimano, Thomas; Chami, Ralph - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2006
dynamic general equilibrium model to investigate the influence of countercyclical remittances on the conduct of fiscal and … monetary policy and trace their effects on real and nominal variables in a business cycle setting. We show that remittances …, remittances increase the correlation between labor and output, thereby producing a more volatile business cycle and increasing …