Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311016 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Review of World Economics [ISSN:] 1610-2886 [Volume:] 159 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 545-561
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Remittance inflows are driven by macroeconomic conditions in the home and the host economies, respectively. In this paper, we study the effect of US monetary policy on remittance flows into economies in Latin American and the Caribbean. The role of Fed policy for remittances has not yet been studied. We estimate a series of panel local projections for remittance inflows into eight countries. A surprise change in US monetary conditions has a strong and highly significant negative effect on inflows. Our finding remains robust if we change the sample period or include additional variables. Hence, our paper establishes a remittance-channel through which the Fed affects the business cycle abroad.
Subjects: 
Remittances
Migration
Business cycle
Monetary policy
Spillovers
JEL: 
F24
F41
E52
O11
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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