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Investment opportunities in the source country and temporary migration
This paper examines how attractive investment opportunities available to temporary migrants at home affect their saving behaviour and the optimal duration of stay abroad. The model predicts an inverse U-shaped relationship between migration duration and the expected rate of return on repatriated savings. A higher rate provides an incentive to go back earlier and consume less abroad,...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 21/07/2011
Perspectives on monetary policy in Switzerland
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 21/07/2011
Financial market imperfections and the impact of exchange rate movements on exports
This paper analyzes empirically the role of financial market imperfections in the way countries’ exports react to a currency depreciation. Using quarterly data for 27 developed and developing countries over the period 1990–2005, we find that the impact of a depreciation on exports will be less positive—or even negative—for a country if: (i) firms borrow in foreign currency; (ii) they...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 21/07/2011
Immigrant parents and children: an analysis of decisions related to return migration
It is not unusual for immigrants to leave the host country and resettle permanently in their country of origin. This paper examines the interaction among some of the key factors that influence the return decision of immigrant households. These include purely economic variables such as wages of the two countries and the costs and benefits of accumulating country-specific human capital...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 21/07/2011
Trends and issues in international development cooperation
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 21/07/2011
Trade and growth with heterogeneous firms
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
Français, English / 21/07/2011
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