a stable flow of interest-insensitive funding, remittances tend to increase banks' holdings of liquid assets. This both …

particular, the contribution that external inflows, in the form of workers’ remittances and concessional lending, may have made …

This paper analyzes the link between remittances inflows and nonperforming loans (NPLs) in a large sample of developing … indicate a stronger marginal impact of remittances in a context of high macroeconomic instability, suggesting a significant … effect of remittances on the likelihood of the private sector’s credit default during shocks. These results hold even after …

The poverty-reducing effects of remittances have been well-documented, however, their effects on inequality are less … clear. This paper examines the impact of remittances on inequality in Mexico using household-level information on the … receiving side. It hopes to speak to their insurance role by examining how remittances are affected by domestic and external …

Workers'' remittances are often argued to have a tendency to move countercyclically with the GDP in recipient countries …'' remittances flows into 12 developing countries over their respective business cycles during 1976-2003 and finds that …

which remittances affect economic activity. The empirical evidence does not clearly support the purported short …

The paper seeks to assess the macroeconomic implications of large-scale inward remittances for a small open economy. By … including remittances in several standard models, the paper concludes that the overall macroeconomic impact of remittances is … problems associated with remittances preclude crosscountry empirical investigation, the paper illustrates these findings with …

balance between those who gain and those who lose from a more extensive tax-transfer policy. In a stylized model of migration …