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What do remittances do? : analyzing the private remittance transmission mechanism in El Salvador /

Family remittances are important for El Salvador's economy. This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on El Salvador's economy and the spillover effects on the other Central American countries. A vector autoregression (VAR) model is formulated, consisting of real and monetary variables...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Cáceres, Luis René (Autor), Nery Saca, Nolvia (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: International Monetary Fund. Statistics Department
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, Statistics Dept., ©2006.
Colección:IMF working paper ; WP/06/250.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. BRIEF REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON EL SALVADORâ€?S RECEIPTS OF REMITTANCES""; ""III. STYLIZED FACTS OF EL SALVADORâ€?S ECONOMY, 1995â€?2004""; ""IV. MODEL SPECIFICATION AND DATA ISSUES""; ""V. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE: TRANSMISSION MECHANISM""; ""VI. CONCLUSIONS AND ECONOMIC POLICY IMPLICATIONS""; ""APPENDIXES""; ""References""