remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances …

Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances … developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in the trade balance of 11 labor-abundant MENA countries. Our panel … regression analysis shows that the inflow of remittances has had an increasing effect on trade deficits by triggering import …

that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes …Recent theoretical work shows that precautionary savings increase in response to an increase in first-order risk. In … addition, it is known that the welfare state, being an insurance or consumption-smoothing mechanism, reduces the negative …

Remittances have greatly increased during recent years, becoming an important and reliable source of funds for many … developing countries. Therefore, there is a strong incentive for receiving countries to attract more remittances, especially … apply a two-step method akin to two stage least squares to deal with the endogeneity of remittances and potential …