The impact that oil shocks have on stock prices in oil exporting countries has implications for both domestic and international investors. We derive the shocks driving oil prices from a fully-identified structural model of the oil market. We study their nonlinear relationship with stock market...

The sending of remittances is a decentralised decision of migrant workers, nevertheless it has its macroeconomic implication in providing insurance against domestic output shocks in the recipient economies – a phenomenon known in literature as risk sharing. Using a large sample of 86...

This paper uses a harmonized dataset of annual nightlight to predict district-level GDP for the 64 districts of Bangladesh over the period 1992-2020. The premise of the paper originates from the work of Henderson et al. (2012), who assert that a simple constant elasticity relationship...