Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows

Migration facilitates the flow of information between countries, thereby reducing informational frictions that potentially hamper cross-country financial flows. Using a gravity model, migration is found to be highly correlated with financial flows from the migrant’s host country to her home country....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kugler, Maurice, Levintal, Oren, Rapoport, Hillel
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32169