Financial development, remittances, and real exchange rate appreciation (original) (raw)

The Long-Run Impact of Financial Development on Remittances: Evidence from Developing Countries

Review of Economics and Finance, 2019

We investigate the long-run relationship between remittances and the overall as well as the ifferent aspects of financial sector development including markets, institutions, access, depth, and efficiency for 85 countries from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East for the years between 1995 and 2014. We first check for stationarity, co-integration, and the direction of causality. We find that all employed variables are stationary in levels and first difference, apart from the case of the host country per capita income which is only stationary in first difference. Our cointegration test results indicate robust evidence of a long-run relationship between the remittances and the covariates. Thus, establishing a case for the long run relationship between remtitances and our covariates including financial services development. In terms of causality between remittances and financial services development, we find a mixture of results ranging from bi-directional, unidirectional, an...

Do workers'remittances promote financial development ?

2006

Workers'remittances to developing countries have become the second largest type of flows after foreign direct investment. The authors use data on workers'remittance flows to 99 developing countries from 1975-2003 to study the impact of remittances on financial sector development. In particular, they examine whether remittances contribute to increasing the aggregate level of deposits and credit intermediated by the local banking