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Northern Triangle Undocumented Migration to the United States

Author/Editor: Alina Carare, Catherine Koh, Yorbol Yakhshilikov.

Release Date:January, 2023

Undocumented migration from the Northern Triangle countries (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) to the United States has been steadily increasing over the past 30 years, accelerating at times. The more...



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Digital Money and Remittances Costs in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic

Author/Editor: Alina Carare, Lavinia Franco, Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov, Justin Lesniak, Dmitry Vasilyev, Yorbol Yakhshilikov.

Release Date:December, 2022

This paper investigates factors that predict variation in digital and non-digital remittance fees over time and across countries, exploring differences between CAPDR and other regions. The paper more...



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Evolution of Remittances to CAPDR Countries and Mexico During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author/Editor: Aleksandra Babii, Alina Carare, Dmitry Vasilyev, Yorbol Yakhshilikov.

Release Date:May, 2022

Traditional models relying on standard variables like the U.S. Hispanic unemployment rate fared well in explaining remittances to CAPDR and Mexico during the pre-pandemic period. However, they fail more...



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Do Monetary Policy Frameworks Matter in Low Income Countries?

Author/Editor: Alina Carare, Carlos de Resende, Andrew T Levin, Chelsea Zhang.

Release Date:July, 2020

In recent years, many Low-Income Countries (LICs) have implemented substantial reforms to their monetary policy frameworks, but existing economic research has not provided a clear rationale to guide more...



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Globalization and the New Normal

Author/Editor: Alina Carare, Bertrand Candelon, Jean-Baptiste Hasse, Jing Lu.

Release Date:April, 2018

This study expands the empirical specification of Cerra and Saxena (2008), and allows short-term output growth regimes to be determined by globalization. Relying on a non-linear dynamic panel more...



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Monetary Policy and Risk-Premium Shocks in Hungary : Results from a Large Bayesian VAR

Author/Editor: Adina Popescu, Alina Carare.

Release Date:November, 2011

We document the transmission of monetary policy and risk-premium shocks in Hungary, by applying recent advances in the Bayesian estimation of large VAR models. The method allows extracting more...



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Spillovers of Domestic Shocks : Will They Counteract the “Great Moderation”?

Author/Editor: Ashoka Mody, Alina Carare.

Release Date:March, 2010

Even prior to the extreme volatility just observed, output growth volatility-following protracted decline-was flattening or mildly rising in some countries. More widespread was an increasing tendency more...



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Inflation Smoothing and the Modest Effect of VAT in Germany

Author/Editor: Stephan Danninger, Alina Carare.

Release Date:July, 2008

Increases in German core inflation following the 2007 VAT hike were smaller than expected, leading to speculation about delayed inflationary effects. This paper argues to the contrary that price more...



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The Use and Abuse of Taylor Rules : How Precisely Can We Estimate Them?

Author/Editor: Robert Tchaidze, Alina Carare.

Release Date:July, 2005

This paper draws attention to inconsistencies in estimating simple monetary policy rules and their implications for policy advice. We simulate a macroeconomic model with a backward reaction function more...



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Inflation Targeting Regimes

Author/Editor: Alina Carare, Mark R Stone.

Release Date:January, 2003

This paper classifies countries that define their monetary policy framework by an inflation target into full-fledged inflation targeters, eclectic inflation targeters and inflation targeting lite more...



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