This paper studies empirically the link between remittances and growth volatility by examining the impact of … of moment (GMM) technique for a sample of 63 countries over the 1980-2004 period. The volatility of terms of trade and … inflation is used to proxy for real and monetary volatility, respectively. The results show that the impact of remittances on …

The transmission mechanisms of volatility between markets can be characterized within a new Markov Switching bivariate …