Workers' Remittances and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate : Theory and Evidence /
This paper investigates the impact of workers' remittances on equilibrium real exchange rates (ERER) in recipient economies. Using a small open economy model, it shows that standard "Dutch Disease" results of appreciation are substantially weakened or even overturned depending on: deg...
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| Médium: | Časopis |
| Jazyk: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2010.
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| Edice: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2010/287 |
| On-line přístup: | Full text available on IMF |
| Shrnutí: | This paper investigates the impact of workers' remittances on equilibrium real exchange rates (ERER) in recipient economies. Using a small open economy model, it shows that standard "Dutch Disease" results of appreciation are substantially weakened or even overturned depending on: degree of openness; factor mobility between domestic sectors; counter cyclicality of remittances; the share of consumption in tradables; and the sensitivity of a country's risk premium to remittance flows. Panel cointegration techniques on a large set of countries provide support for these analytical results, and show that ERER appreciation in response to sustained remittance flows tends to be quantitatively small. |
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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (42 pages) |
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| ISSN: | 1018-5941 |
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