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country into stagnation. We also find that immigrants' remittances are harmful to the host country under full employment but …
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Remittances are private monetary transfers across borders and thus, often, involve different currencies. Yet the … foreign-currency remittances have on a recipient economy. This paper uses a theoretical model and panel vector autoregression … techniques to understand the effect of remittances on GDP, inflation, real exchange rate and money supply, depending on the …
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This paper adds international migration and remittances into the IMF's Flexible System of Global Models (FSGM). FSGM is … dynamics of major remitter regions is proposed. The dynamics of remittances and migration in FSGM are calibrated to be …
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-country business cycle model of labor migration and remittances. The model matches the cyclical dynamics of unskilled migration and … documents the insurance role of remittances in consumption smoothing. Over the cycle, immigration increases with the expected … stock of immigrant labor, enhancing the volatility of unskilled wages and remittances. Changes in border enforcement have …
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The sending of remittances is a decentralised decision of migrant workers, nevertheless it has its macroeconomic …% for Tajikistan (38%) for Haiti (-13%). Subsequently, we explore why the extent of risk sharing through remittances is so … risk sharing via remittances: the more diverse the migration destinations of a country, higher will be the amount of risk …
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Recent studies on the growth effects of exchange rate regimes offer a wide range of different, sometimes contradictory results. In this paper, we systematically compare three prominent contributions in this field. Using a common data set, a common specification, and common estimation methods, we...
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In this paper I investigate the relevance of the exchange rate regime for macroeconomic stability. I simulate hypothetical macroeconomic developments under different regimes in Sweden during the period 1972 -1996. The main question is how stable output would have been if Sweden had had a...
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