Volume/Issue: 2006/257
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Martin Petri
, and
Tahsin Saadi-Sedik
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
November
2006
ISBN: 9781451865172
This paper estimates the effect of grants and workers' remittances on Jordan's long-term equilibrium real exchange rate. We estimate an equilibrium path for the Jordanian real exchange rate using the Johansen coint...
Volume/Issue: 2006/257
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Martin Petri
, and
Tahsin Saadi-Sedik
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
November
2006
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451865172.001
ISBN: 9781451865172
This paper estimates the effect of grants and workers' remittances on Jordan's long-term equilibrium real exchange rate. We estimate an equilibrium path for the Jordanian real exchange rate using the Johansen coint...
Volume/Issue: 2006/130
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Jacques Bouhga-Hagbe
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
May
2006
ISBN: 9781451863901
Workers' remittances have been playing an increasingly important role in the balance of payments of many countries and can significantly contribute to the strength of their external positions. Assessing the likely...
Volume/Issue: 2009/91
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Dalia Hakura
,
Ralph Chami
, and
Peter Montiel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
April
2009
ISBN: 9781451872385
Remittance flows appear to be falling worldwide for the first time in decades as a result of the ongoing financial turmoil. It is suspected that the drop in remittance income into developing and emerging markets wi...
Volume/Issue: 2007/157
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Andreas Billmeier
, and
Isabella Massa
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
July
2007
ISBN: 9781451867213
In this paper, we assess the macroeconomic determinants of stock market capitalization in a panel of 17 countries in the Middle East and Central Asia, including both hydrocarbon-rich countries and economies without...
Volume/Issue: 2008/167
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Nadeem Ilahi
, and
Riham Shendy
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
July
2008
ISBN: 9781451870251
This paper tests the association between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' financial and remittance outflows and regional growth in the Middle East. The findings, based on 35-year panel data, indicate t...
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...
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
15
May
1993
ISBN: 9781557753328
Objectives and the Global Framework...
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
15
May
1993
ISBN: 9781557753328
International financial intermediation since the mid-eighties has made an enormous leap in apparent efficiency going hand in hand with the unprecedented explosion of cross-border capital flows,...
Volume/Issue: 2006/52
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Serdar Sayan
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
February
2006
ISBN: 9781451863123
Workers' remittances are often argued to have a tendency to move countercyclically with the GDP in recipient countries since migrant workers are expected to remit more during down cycles of economic activity back h...