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Parity reversion in real exchange rates : fast, slow, or not at all?
Cashin, Paul A.; McDermott, John - In: IMF staff papers 53 (2006) 1, pp. 89-119
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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009
, however, is that there seem to be certain "threshold" levels of financial and institutional development that an economy needs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831857
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Remittances and the brain drain revisited : the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David J.; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909197
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How does financial globalization affect risk sharing? : Patterns and channels
Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2007
In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of the patterns of risk sharing among different groups of countries and examine how international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586563
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A new database of financial reforms
Abiad, Abdul; Detragiache, Enrica; Tressel, Thierry - In: IMF staff papers 57 (2010) 2, pp. 281-302
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Does financial globalization promote risk sharing?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - In: Journal of development economics 89 (2009) 2, pp. 258-270
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...
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Migration and development
Munshi, Kaivan (ed.); Rapoport, Hillel (ed.) - In: Journal of development economics 102 (2013), pp. 1
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Migration policy, African population growth and global inequality
Mountford, Andrew; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014
According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010382705
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Migration and cross-border financial flows
Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...
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