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In Cote d'Ivoire, as in much of Africa, husbands and wives farm different crops on separate plots. These different crops are differentially sensitive to particular kinds of rainfall shocks. We find that conditional on overall household expenditure, the composition of expenditure is sensitive to...
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Information asymmetries are important in theory but difficult to identify in practice. We estimate the empirical importance of adverse selection and moral hazard in a consumer credit market using a new field experiment methodology. We randomized 58,000 direct mail offers issued by a major South...
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Information asymmetries seem to play an important role in monetary economics. We consider three forms of information transmission which can be used to alleviate these information asymmetries. First, if information is verifiable or the publication of information is in the central bank's interest,...
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El presente documento estudia el acceso al crédito y la propensión a salir del mercado de las empresas sin deuda bancaria (la principal fuente de financiación de las empresas españolas no cotizadas) en torno a la crisis del COVID-19. La metodología implementada permite distinguir entre...
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ondevelopment efforts. The resurgence of foreign direct investment (FDI) and theincreasing significance of remittances, both as …, with female employment rate getting the largest impact – relative to males.Remittances are another capital flow that plays … adequately to standard shocks, a remittances shock is introduced to examinethe dynamic response of the representative economy …
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economies and development economists having dissenting views about the impact of emigration and remittances on source countries …-coping mechanisms since remittances may play an insurance role. I provide evidence that remittances have transformed farming practices … labor shortages, remittances can be a source of insurance and investment finance that fosters agricultural development …
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This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an …
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Savings are one of the important determinants beyond the theories of economic growth. Therefore remittances and foreign … between economic growth, remittances, foreign direct investment inflows and gross domestic savings in Turkey during the period … 1974-2013 by using Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach. We found that remittances, foreign direct investment and gross …
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Migration is a complex phenomenon, with complex and diverse implications. Meanwhile the society is in a constant change the major changes occurring internationally may generate new migratory flows or different views regarding this phenomenon. The most obvious consequences are arising from...
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Diese Arbeit ist eine Sammlung von Studien, welche sowohl die makro-, als auch die mikroökonomischen Aspekte und Charakteristika von Rücküberweisungen pakistanischer Migranten in ihr Heimatland analysieren, sowie deren ökonomische Auswirkungen auf das Konsumverhalten und die...
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