This paper examines how international remittances are affected by structural characteristics, macroeconomic conditions … remittances from 103 Italian provinces to 107 developing countries over the period 2005-2011. We find that remittances are … as natural disasters or large declines in the terms of trade. Remittances are positively correlated with economic …

The paper investigates the effect of remittances on the coverage of financial deficits arising during youth and …, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua to perform a number of econometric tests exploring the linkage between remittances and a battery …, with variations across countries and regression specifications, remittances generally appear to exert a positive and robust …

estimation of these linkages is also shown to matter for gauging the sensitivity of remittances to economic conditions in the … home country, and hence the extent to which remittances might buffer domestic shocks as well as transmitting external ones …. -- Remittances ; Business Cycles ; Central America ; Mexico ; United States …