Measuring the macroeconomic impact of workers' remittances in a data-rich environment.

This article uses 85 monthly time series from Mexico to study the macroeconomic impact of workers' remittances. The estimation approach is based on the two-step factor augmented vector autoregression methodology used by Bernanke et al. (2005). The results show that Mexico's inward remittan...

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Main Author: Vargas-Silva, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Taylor and Francis 2007