Remittances and the real effective exchange rates in MENA countries: What is the long run impact?

Mariem Brahim (), Nader Nefzi () and Hamed Sambo
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Mariem Brahim: Centre d'Economie de l'Université de Paris Nord (CEPN)

No 2017-15, CEPN Working Papers from Centre d'Economie de l'Université de Paris Nord

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of remittances on real effective exchange rate in MENA countries using an autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) model and three estimators, namely the Pooled Mean Group estimator, the Mean Group estimator and the dynamics common correlated effects estimator. We use data from 9 countries of MENA region for the 1980-2015 period. On the long-run, we find that migrants’ remittances towards the whole MENA countries negatively and significantly affect the real effective exchange rate. Indeed, the increase in remittances leads to a depreciation of the real exchange rate, meaning that remittances do not deteriorate the price competitiveness of the recipient countries in the long-run. Therefore, remittances do not cause the Dutch disease’s risk in MENA countries.

Keywords: Migration; Remittances; Real effective exchange rate; Dutch Disease; Monetary policy; MENA; ARDL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 F24 F31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-08
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