For many countries, remittance behaviour by migrants is an important component of their overall international financial flows. To date, the empirical literature has analysed the propensity to remit as a function of migrants’ socio-economic characteristics. However, no studies have fully...

For many countries, remittance behaviour by migrants is an important component of their overall international financial flows. The empirical literature has, so far, analysed the propensity to remit as a function of migrants' socio-economic characteristics. However, no studies have fully...

A recent study by Giuliano and Ruiz-Arranz (2006) has provided evidence of substitutability between remittances and financial development in fostering economic growth in developing countries. In this paper, we introduce a new qualitative inefficiency indicator of the domestic banking system and...

In this paper, we offer novel empirical evidence on the impact of natural disasters on remittance flows towards low- and middle-income countries. We consider a panel of 98 countries over the period 1990-2010. Our findings show that remittances increase after a disaster, thus contributing ex post...