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Determinants of workers’ remittances: evidence from the European Neighbouring Region

Schiopu, Ioana; Siegfried, Nikolaus - 2006

Workers’ remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the … main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus … investment motive. Finally, migrants’ skills raise remittances, while a large informal economy in the sending country depresses …

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Determinants of Workers' Remittances : Evidence from the European Neighbouring Region

Schiopu, Ioana C.; Siegfried, Nikolaus A. - 2021

Workers' remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the … main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus … investment motive. Finally, migrants' skills raise remittances, while a large informal economy in the sending country depresses …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317412

Global and local drivers of Bitcoin trading vis-à-vis fiat currencies

Di Casola, Paola; Habib, Maurizio Michael; … - 2023

We analyse the drivers of Bitcoin transactions against 44 fiat currencies in the largest peer-to-peer crypto exchanges. Momentum and volatility in the cryptoasset market, as well as volatility and liquidity in global financial markets do matter for Bitcoin trading. There is suggestive evidence...

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Migrants' choice of remittance channel: Do general payment habits play a role?

Kosse, Anneke; Vermeulen, Robert - 2014

habits: migrants who regularly use internet banking for other purposes are more likely to use bank services for remittances …

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Migrants' Choice of Remittance Channel : Do General Payment Habits Play a Role?

Kosse, Anneke - 2014

habits: migrants who regularly use internet banking for other purposes are more likely to use bank services for remittances …

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Finance and growth in the EU: new evidence from the liberalisation and harmonisation of the banking industry

De Ávila, Diego Romero - 2003

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Retail payments and the real economy

Hasan, Iftekhar; De Renzis, Tania; Schmiedel, Heiko - 2013

This paper examines the fundamental relationship between retail payments and the real economy. Using data from across 27 European markets over the period 1995-2009, the results confirm that migration to efficient electronic retail payments stimulates the overall economy, consumption and trade....

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Bank efficiency and regional growth in Europe: new evidence from micro-data

Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Setzer, Ralph - 2016

This paper examines whether European regions which incorporate banks with a higher intermediation quality grow faster and are more resilient to negative shocks than its less efficient peers. For this purpose, we measure a bank's intermediation quality by estimating its pro t and cost efficiency...

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Do Macroprudential Measures Increase Inequality? Evidence from the Euro Area Household Survey

Georgescu, Oana Maria; Martín, Diego Vila - 2021

Borrower-based macroprudential (MP) policies - such as caps on loan-to-value (LTV) ratios and debt-service-to-income (DSTI) limits - contain the build-up of systemic risk by reducing the probability and conditional impact of a crisis. While LTV/DSTI limits can increase inequality at...

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Finance and carbon emissions

de Haas, Ralph; Popov, Alexander - 2019

We study the relation between the structure of financial systems and carbon emissions in a large panel of countries and industries over the period 1990-2013. We find that for given levels of economic and financial development and environmental regulation, CO2 emissions per capita are lower in...

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