Emerging market business cycles with remittance fluctuations

IMF Staff Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 303-325

  Durdu, Ceyhun Bora ^a   Sayan, Serdar ^b  

^a Federal Reserve Board Division of International Finance   (United States)

^b TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

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EID: 77956990824     PISSN: 10207635     EISSN: 15645150     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/imfsp.2009.3     Document Type: Article

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