This paper presents an analysis of the effect of remittances on the current account in developing and emerging … suggest there is a positive effect of remittances on the current account contemporaneously, but that the lagged effect is … remittances have on the current account. The paper, therefore, asserts that policy makers face trade-offs pertaining to the use of …

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of remittances on the current account in developing and emerging … suggest there is a positive effect of remittances on the current account contemporaneously, but that the lagged effect is … remittances have on the current account. The paper, therefore, asserts that policy makers face trade-offs pertaining to the use of …

international migrations by investigating whether the increasingly large flows of workers' remittances can help reduce the … probability of current account reversals. The rationale for this stands in the great stability and low cyclicality of remittances … as compared with other private capital flows: these properties, combined with the fact that remittances are cheap inflows …

international migrations by investigating whether the increasingly large flows of workers' remittances can help reduce the … probability of current account reversals. The rationale for this stands in the great stability and low cyclicality of remittances … as compared with other private capital flows: these properties, combined with the fact that remittances are cheap inflows …

This paper examines the impact of remittances on current account dynamics under alternative monetary and exchange rate … policies. The main findings suggest that altruistic remittances precipitate a current account deficit under a fixed exchange …‐interest remittances are associated with a current account surplus under a Taylor rule that manages real exchange rate variability or a …

international migrations by investigating whether the increasingly large flows of workers' remittances can help reduce the … probability of current account reversals. The rationale for this stands in the great stability and low cyclicality of remittances … as compared with other private capital flows: these properties, combined with the fact that remittances are cheap inflows …