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Determinants of Risk Sharing Through Remittances : Cross-Country Evidence
Balli, Faruk - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060396
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Remittances, monetary institutions, and autocracies
Garriga, Ana Carolina; Meseguer Yebra, Covadonga - In: Oxford development studies 47 (2019) 4, pp. 452-467
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198112
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Words, deeds, and outcomes: A survey on the growth effects of exchange rate regimes
Harms, Philipp; Kretschmann, Marco - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430062
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Limits of floats: The role of foreign currency debt and import structure
Towbin, Pascal; Weber, Sebastian - 2010
A traditional argument in favor of flexible exchange rates is that they insulate output better from real shocks, because the exchange rate can adjust and stabilize demand for domestic goods through expenditure switching. This argument is weakened in a model with high foreign currency debt and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316739
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When countries do not do what they say: Systematic discrepancies between exchange rate regime announcements and de facto policies
Bersch, Julia; Klüh, Ulrich H. - 2007
We study the apparent disconnect between what countries announce to be their exchange rate regime and what they de facto implement. Even though discrepancies between announcements and de facto polices are frequent, there is a lack of understanding of actual patterns and underlying reasons. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427488
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Words, deeds, and outcomes : a survey on the growth effects of exchange rate regimes
Harms, Philipp; Kretschmann, Marco - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397221
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When countries do not do what they say : systematic discrepancies between exchange rate regime announcements and de facto policies
Bersch, Julia; Klüh, Ulrich - 2007
We study the apparent disconnect between what countries announce to be their exchange rate regime and what they de facto implement. Even though discrepancies between announcements and de facto polices are frequent, there is a lack of understanding of actual patterns and underlying reasons. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951455
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Exports and the exchange rate : a general equilibrium perspective
Alexander, Patrick; Reza, Abeer - 2022 - Last updated: April 4, 2022
Understanding and predicting the evolution of exports after a change in the nominal exchange rate is of central importance in international economics. Most of the literature focuses on estimating this relationship by reduced form, with the aim of uncovering a single structural parameter, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172465
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Foreign exchange interventions : the long and the short of it
Alexander, Patrick; Alpanda, Sami; Kabaca, Serdar - 2022 - Last updated: June 6, 2022
This paper studies the effects of foreign exchange (FX) interventions in a two-region New Keynesian model where governments issue both short-term and long-term bonds. Imperfect substitutability between bonds gives rise to portfolio balance effects that make FX interventions effective....
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Global aging and economic convergence : a real option or still a case of science fiction?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2007
to be a sustainable solution to unbalanced global economic developments. Remittances, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and …. Remittances offer no structural solution to reduction of poverty as these funds flow to a selective group of families and are …
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