What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration … effects on receipt of remittances than net earnings potential of households in the country of origin. Second, the receipt of … remittances has a positive effect on emigration intentions of household members living in the country of origin. Therefore …

dividend of extra growth. During the twenty years from 1975 to 2005 Europe and the US have benefited from a strong demographic … potential growth phase may well disappear if supporting conditions for growth are absent. Large-scale migration is not expected … to be a sustainable solution to unbalanced global economic developments. Remittances, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and …

To investigate the role of intra-regional trade integration on economic growth in Latin America, we develop a … factor for explaining growth, while the importance of domestic spillovers is limited. The growth volatility is substantively …

In this paper we explore linkages between financial services tradeand growth. We offer aformalization of the argument … econometric exercise. Cross-country growth regressionspoint to a strong positive relationship between financial sectorcompetition … and financial sectoropenness, and between growth and financial sector competition. …

structural change in industrial import patterns is in principleambiguous. A standard empirical growth model is augmented by … activitiesimpact differently on economic growth is tested on a sample of 45 countries (OECD members andselected Asian and Latin … estimation pointtowards a positive long-run growth effect arising from trade specialization in medium …

We analyze the impact of obsolescence of economic inventions by incorporating maintenance costsin the endogenous growth … investment in research and development and the growth rate of theeconomy. …

We explore dynamic linkages between financial/banking sector openness, financial sector competition, and growth. We … competition/performance and financia1 sector openness (meaning foreign bank access to domestic markets), and between growth and …