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What Explains Remittance Fees? Panel Evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2022
This paper uses data across 365 corridors to document time and country variation in remittance fees and explore factors predicting variation in remittance fees. We document a general reduction in such fees over the past decade although the goal of fees below 3 percent has not been met yet in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060523
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Do Remittances to Latin America Dependon the U.S. Business Cycle?
Gradzka, Ewa; Roache, Shaun K. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
We use a range of methods and remittance data from 1990 to 2007 to assess the strength and significance of linkages between remittance flows to Latin America and the U.S. business cycle. All of the evidence suggests that remittance flows are relatively insensitive to fluctuations in the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605152
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Grants, Remittances, and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Sub-Saharan African Countries
Mongardini, Joannes; Rayner, Brett - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
grants and remittances and the equilibrium real exchange rate in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using panel techniques …. The results indicate that grants and remittances are not associated, in the long run, with an appreciation of the real … and remittances may be serving to ease supply constraints or boost productivity in the non-tradable sector in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999958
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Remittances and Macroeconomic Volatility in African Countries
Jidoud, Ahmat - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
This paper investigates the channels through which remittances affect macroeconomic volatility in African countries … consumption volatility is somewhat small. Furthermore, remittances are found to absorb a substantial amount of GDP shocks in these … countries. An investigation of the theoretical channels shows that the stabilization impact of remittances essentially hinges on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242418
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Bond Markets As Conduits for Capital Flows : How Does Asia Compare?
Luengnaruemitchai, Pipat - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. REVIEW OF PREVIOUS STUDIES -- III. DATA AND SPECIFICATION -- IV. BASIC RESULTS -- V. SENSITIVITY CHECKS -- VI. CONNECTIONS WITH OTHER ASPECTS OF FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT -- VII. THE COMPOSITION OF THE INVESTOR BASE -- VIII. CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012691127
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Bank Ownership and Credit Growth in Emerging Markets During and After the 2008–09 Financial Crisis — A Cross-Regional Comparison
Chen, Guodong; Wu, Yi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
banks in 2009 in Asia, and in 2010 in Latin America and emerging Europe. State-owned banks instead played a counter … growth. Banks in Latin America and Asia that relied more on retail funding had higher credit growth, in particular during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142108
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Commodity Price Cycles; The Perils of Mismanaging the Boom
Sosa, Sebastian; Adler, Gustavo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
America - one of the most vulnerable regions given its high, and rising, commodity dependence - and emerging Asia - which has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370555
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Empirical Evidence on the Effects of Tax Incentives
Klemm, Alexander - 2009
This paper considers two empirical questions about tax incentives: (1) are incentives used as tools of tax competition and (2) how effective are incentives in attracting investment? To answer these, we prepared a new dataset of tax incentives in over 40 Latin American, Caribbean and African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677803
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Health Aid and Infant Mortality
Newhouse, David Locke; Mishra, Prachi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between 1973 and 2004. Health aid has a statistically significant effect on infant mortality: doubling per capita health aid is associated with a 2 percent reduction in the infant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263717
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Social Spending, Human Capital, and Growth in Developing Countries; Implications for Achieving the Mdgs
Baldacci, Emanuele; Cui, Qiang; Clements, Benedict J.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
Using panel data from 120 developing countries from 1975 to 2000, this paper explores the direct and indirect channels linking social spending, human capital, and growth in a system of equations. The paper finds that both education and health spending have a positive and significant direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263905