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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Autor principal: Caceres, Luis Rene
Altres autors: Nery Saca, Nolvia
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/250
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF
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