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Migrants' choice of remittance channel : do general payment habits play a role?
Kosse, Anneke; Vermeulen, Robert - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010382014
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Determinants of workers' remittances : evidence from the European Neighbouring Region
Schiopu, Ioana (contributor);  … - 2006
Workers' remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the … main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus … investment motive. Finally, migrants' skills raise remittances, while a large informal economy in the sending country depresses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003396745
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The immigrant/native wealth gap in Germany, Italy and Luxembourg
Mathä, Thomas Y.; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Sierminska, Eva - 2011
This paper analyses the existence of an immigrant/native wealth gap by using household survey data for Luxembourg, Germany and Italy. The results show that, in all three countries, a sizeable wealth gap exists between natives and immigrants. Towards the upper tail of the wealth distribution the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640635
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The immigrant/native wealth gap in Germany, Italy and Luxembourg
Mathä, Thomas; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Sierminska, Eva - 2011
This paper analyses the existence of an immigrant/native wealth gap by using household survey data for Luxembourg, Germany and Italy. The results show that, in all three countries, a sizeable wealth gap exists between natives and immigrants. Towards the upper tail of the wealth distribution the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008902394
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Designing targeting rules for international monetary policy cooperation
Benigno, Gianluca; Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2003
This study analyzes international monetary policy cooperation in a twocountry dynamic general equilibrium model with nominal rigidities, monopolistic competition and producer currency pricing. A quadratic approximation to the utility of the consumers is derived and assumed as the policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635898
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Measuring contagion with a Bayesian, time-varying coefficient model
Ciccarelli, Matteo; Rebucci, Alessandro - 2003
To measure contagion empirically, we propose using a Bayesian time-varying coefficient model estimated with Markov ChainMonte Carlo methods. The proposed measure works in the joint presence of heteroskedasticity and omitted variables and does not require knowledge of the timing of the crisis. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635914
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Maintaining price stability under free-floating
Detken, Carsten; Gaspar, Vítor - 2003
The behaviour of the exchange rate under a floating exchange rate regime for a small open economy with perfect capital mobility may appear like a managed float or even a firmer peg. We present a canonical new neo-classical synthesis open economy model where the central bank follows a strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635960
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Growth expectations, capital flows and international risk sharing
Castrén, Olli; Miller, Marcus; Stiegert, Roger - 2003
Over the past decades, cross-border financial flows have increased in importance and have in many occasions exceeded the underlying current account positions. This phenomenon has been accompanied by an increase in the volume of international equity transactions that accentuate the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635970
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International risk-sharing and the transmission of productivity shocks
Corsetti, Giancarlo; Dedola, Luca; Leduc, Sylvain - 2004
A central puzzle in international finance is that real exchange rates are volatile and, in stark contradiction to effcient risk-sharing, negatively correlated with cross-country consumption ratios. This paper shows that incomplete asset markets and a low price elasticity of tradables can account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636531
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Current accounts dynamics in OECD and EU acceding countries
Bussière, Matthieu; Fratzscher, Marcel; Müller, Gernot J. - 2004
The paper extends the standard intertemporal model of the current account to include two important stylised facts: (1) the persistence of current account positions and (2) the relevance of the fiscal balance. Specifically, the paper derives a closed form solution for consumption in the presence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636534