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In an open economy with endogenous risks, financial development and capital account liberalization reduce the volatilities of home equity and bond prices, and appreciate the home currency at the stochastic steady state. Financial development lowers the equilibrium real interest rate when...
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Do financial frictions call for policy cooperation? This paper investigates the implications of financial frictions for monetary policy in the open economy. Welfare analysis shows that there are long-run gains which result from cooperation, but, dynamically, financial frictions per se do not...
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Despite the voluminous literature on the effect of aid-for-trade (AfT) flows on recipient countries’ trade performance, little is known about the relationship between AfT flows and other capital flows to developing countries. This paper contributes to the literature by exploring the effect of...
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Small, open developing economies in general, and small island developing states (SIDS) in particular, have specific macroeconomic characteristics due both to their openness and their small size. Small size means they can never have fully independent capital-intensive domestic economies, so to...
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This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an … emigration ; Remittances ; Fertility ; Human capital …
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of fragile states. The main contribution of this paper is to fulfill this gap while testing whether remittances, foreign … that, foreign aid is complement for both remittances and foreign direct investment. However this effect partially vanishes … as foreign aid is complement for both remittances and foreign direct investment, an optimal policy in the case of fragile …
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remittance income is spent. My findings suggest that in communities without banks remittances are more likely to be used for … increases the likelihood that remittances are used for productive investment and decreases the likelihood that remittances are … remittances for productive investment, purchasing assets, and general consumption …
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