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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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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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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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An adaptive targeted field experiment : job search assistance for refugees in Jordan
Caria, Stefano A.; Gordon, Grant; Kasy, Maximilian; … - 2020
local jobseekers in Jordan: one treatment to address liquidity constraints, one to address information frictions, and one to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270365
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The impact of the fracking boom on Arab oil producers
Kilian, Lutz - 2016
This article contributes to the debate about the impact of the U.S. fracking boom on U.S. oil imports, on Arab oil exports, and on the global price of crude oil. First, I investigate the extent to which this oil boom has caused Arab oil exports to the United States to decline since late 2008....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422578
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A general approach to recovering market expectations from futures prices with an application to crude oil
Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz - 2016
Futures markets are a potentially valuable source of information about price expectations. Exploiting this information has proved difficult in practice, because time-varying risk premia often render the futures price a poor measure of the market expectation of the price of the underlying asset....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434566
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Pro-cyclical petroleum investments and cost overruns in Norway
Dahl, Roy Endré; Lorentzen, Sindre; Oglend, Atle; … - 2016
Development projects in the oil industry often have cost overruns. Through analysis of data from Norwegian development projects in the petroleum industry, this paper investigates the common effect of business cycle developments on cost overruns. Lack of capacity and expertise in a tight supplier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539018
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The impact of rising oil prices on U.S. inflation and inflation expectations in 2020-23
Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2021
Predictions of oil prices reaching $100 per barrel during the winter of 2021/22 have raised fears of persistently high inflation and rising inflation expectations for years to come. We show that these concerns have been overstated. A $100 oil scenario of the type discussed by many observers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696925
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How the tight oil boom has changed oil and gasoline markets
Kilian, Lutz - 2017
Starting in late 2008, the U.S. production of tight oil surged, causing a renaissance in the U.S. oil sector that few industry analysts had anticipated. This tight oil boom reduced the dependence of the United States on petroleum imports and allowed it to become a major exporter of gasoline and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615967