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 …

households to examine the joint effect of migration and remittances on economic development. We apply the model to internal … migration in China. Counterfactual analysis of the calibrated model shows that the presence of remittances increases migration …