Do Remittances to Latin America Depend on the U.S. Business Cycle? /

We use a range of methods and remittance data from 1990 to 2007 to assess the strength and significance of linkages between remittance flows to Latin America and the U.S. business cycle. All of the evidence suggests that remittance flows are relatively insensitive to fluctuations in the U.S. cycle,...

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Autor principal: Gradzka, Ewa
Otros Autores: Roache, Shaun
Formato: Revista
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007.
Colección:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/273
Acceso en línea:Full text available on IMF