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Internal migration, remittances and economic development
Pan, Xiameng; Sun, Chang - 2023
households to examine the joint effect of migration and remittances on economic development. We apply the model to internal … migration in China. Counterfactual analysis of the calibrated model shows that the presence of remittances increases migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334396
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Knowledge remittances : does emigration foster innovation?
Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018
Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively contributes to innovation in source countries. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011952002
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Wider boundaries : the welfare state and international remittances
Amegashie, J. Atsu; Batu, Michael - 2015
welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes … prediction of our model using panel data of bilateral remittances. Our theoretical prediction is supported by the data: there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300358
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How does the flow of remittances affect the trade balance of the Middle East and North Africa?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hassan, Sherif Maher - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557898
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Diasporas and economic development : a review of the evidence and policy
Bahar, Dany - 2020
The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and opportunities that these diasporas could represent for home countries. In addition, the paper discusses policies aimed at leveraging this "diaspora capital".
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165988
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On the influence of oil prices on stock markets : evidence from panel analysis in GCC countries
Arouri, Mohamed; Rault, Christophe - 2009
This paper implements recent bootstrap panel cointegration techniques and Seemingly Unrelated regression (SUR) methods to investigate the existence of a long-run relationship between oil prices and Gulf Corporation Countries (GCC) stock markets. Since GCC countries are major world energy market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854428
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Oil prices and stock markets : what drives what in the gulf corporation council countries?
Arouri, Mohamed; Rault, Christophe - 2010
In the empirical literature, only few studies have focused on the relationship between oil prices and stock markets in net oil-importing countries. In net oil-exporting countries this relationship has not been widely researched. This paper implements the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937088
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Financial integration in the GCC region : market size versus national effects
Arin, Kerim Peren; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Kyriacou, … - 2019
This paper examines financial spillovers between the four largest equity markets (by market capitalization) in the GCC region using a VAR-GARCH (1,1) framework that sheds light on interdependence as well as the effects of the 2014 oil crisis. Since the UAE is a federation including two stock...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026436
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Energy consumption in the GCC countries : evidence on persistence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Monge, … - 2019
This paper examines the statistical properties of energy consumption in the GCC countries applying fractional integration methods to annual data from 1980 to 2014. The results indicate that both the raw and the logged series exhibit a (statistically significant) linear time trend in the case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962319
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Oil prices and GCC stock markets : new evidence from smooth transition models
Cheikh, Nidhaleddine Ben; Ben Naceur, Samy; Kanaan, … - 2018
Our paper examines the effect of oil price changes on Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets using nonlinear smooth transition regression (STR) models. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our empirical results reveal that GCC stock markets do not have similar sensitivities to oil price...
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