Imbalances in the current and financial account have been at the heart of the discussion on global imbalances. With respect to monitoring macroeconomic stability it is highly important to know whether capital flows cause reactions in the current account or whether they rather adjust to changes...

This article empirically investigates the growth performance of European noneuro area countries during the recent global crisis depending on their respective exchange rate regime. Usually, floating exchange rate regimes are considered to better help countries cope with negative real shocks....

We present cross-country evidence on the impact of remittances on labor market outcomes.Remittances appear to have a strong impact on both labor supply and labor demand inrecipient countries. These effects are highly significant and greater in size than those offoreign direct investment or...

Corruption is macro-relevant for many countries, but is often hidden, making measurement of it-and its effects-inherently difficult. Existing indicators suffer from several weaknesses, including a lack of time variation due to the sticky nature of perception-based measures, reliance on a limited...

Pese a que las remesas aportan ventajas en materia de bienestar y reduccion de la pobreza para los hogares receptores, se ha observado que tambien traen consigo problemas macroeconomicos: producen efecto de tipo mal holandes debido a sus presiones alcistas (apreciacion) sobre los tipos de cambio...

Despite welfare and poverty-reducing benefits for recipient households, remittance inflows have been shown to entail macroeconomic challenges; producing Dutch Disease-type effects through their upward (appreciation) pressure on real exchange rates, reducing the quality of institutions, delaying...

Imbalances in the current and financial account have been at the heart of the discussion on global imbalances. With respect to monitoring macroeconomic stability it is highly important to know whether capital flows cause reactions in the current account or whether they rather adjust to changes...