Volume/Issue: 2008/230
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Tigran Melkonyan
,
David Grigorian
, and
J. Scott Shonkwiler
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
September
2008
ISBN: 9781451870886
Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives mostly ignore the potential errors associated with reporting/measurement issues. An econometri...
Volume/Issue: 2008/19
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Tigran Melkonyan
, and
David Grigorian
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
January
2008
ISBN: 9781451868814
The paper explicitly models the dynamic strategic aspects of the interaction between the migrant and the remittance-receiving relative(s), with the migrant behaving as a Stackelberg leader. It is also different fro...
Volume/Issue: 2015/157
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Ali Al-Sadiq
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
16
July
2015
ISBN: 9781513502342
It is common for IMF-supported adjustment programs with low-income member countries
(LICs) to project that they will facilitate FDI inflows. The main objective of this paper is to
empirically examine this hypothesi...
Volume/Issue: 2008/230
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Tigran Melkonyan
,
David Grigorian
, and
J. Scott Shonkwiler
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
September
2008
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451870886.001
ISBN: 9781451870886
Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives mostly ignore the potential errors associated with reporting/measurement issues. An econometri...
Volume/Issue: 2008/19
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Tigran Melkonyan
, and
David Grigorian
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
January
2008
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451868814.001
ISBN: 9781451868814
The paper explicitly models the dynamic strategic aspects of the interaction between the migrant and the remittance-receiving relative(s), with the migrant behaving as a Stackelberg leader. It is also different fro...
Volume/Issue: 36/9
Series: IMF Survey
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
31
May
2007
ISBN: 9781451938432
IEO on IMF exchange rate advice; GFSR: financial system risks and issues for regulators; good times in Belgium; Africa's oil exporters; outlook for Middle East and Central Asia; Caucasus and Central Asia:capital fl...
Volume/Issue: 2003/5
Series: IMF Policy Discussion Papers
Author(s):
Clinton Shiells
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
November
2003
ISBN: 9781451972849
In view of disappointing levels of inward foreign direct investment (FDI), this paper examines capital flows into the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries and investigates the main impediments to a mo...
Volume/Issue: 2014/61
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Nicolas Magud
, and
Esteban Vesperoni
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
16
April
2014
ISBN: 9781475543735
We document the behavior of macro and credit variables during episodes of capital inflows reversals in economies with different degrees of exchange rate flexibility. We find that exchange rate flexibility is associ...
Volume/Issue: 1996/22
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Alain Ize
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
February
1996
ISBN: 9781451921243
Significant capital inflows were observed during the first half of 1995 in a number of FSU countries. This paper reviews the recent experience of those countries with significant inflows, examines policy responses...
Volume/Issue: 2012/104
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Yasser Abdih
,
Ralph Chami
,
Christian Ebeke
, and
Adolfo Barajas
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
April
2012
ISBN: 9781475502947
This paper identifies a remittances channel that transmits exogenous shocks, such as business cycles in remittance-sending countries, to the public finances of remittance-receiving countries. Using panel data for r...