Remittances and Business Cycles: Comparison of South Asian Countries

Remittances, Inequality and Poverty in Pakistan: Macro and Microeconomic Evidence

This study examines asset accumulation patterns of the recipients of foreign and domestic remittances. Using the representative 2010-11 Pakistani households’ survey and employing a number of matching routines, we analyse stocks of consumer, productive, housing and financial assets among...

This paper discusses the evolution of the supply chain and welfare under economic integration in a three-region framework (one developed and two developing regions), with each region at a different stage of development. Economic integration is measured by the reduction of inter-regional trade...

Cet article discute l’impact de l’intégration économique sur les délocalisations et le bien-être dans un cadre à trois régions (une région développée et deux en voie de développement), chaque région se trouvant à un stade différent de développement. L’intégration économique...

The objective of this article is twofold. Firstly, we proceed to an analysis of the evolution of specialization in production in the enlarged EU, taking into account all its 27 member countries. Given their decomposability properties, we use the entropy-based indices to measure countries’...

Spatial Distribution of Skills and Regional Trade Integration

In [2], we had extended the classical concepts and arbitrage theory of symmetric information, to an asymmetric information model, which dropped Radner's (1979) rational expectations' assumption. In [3], we showed how agents could infer enough information, in this model, to rule out arbitrage...