Do Immigrants’ Funds Affect the Exchange Rate?

What is it about?

We investigate how the funds brought into Canada by immigrants, affects the real effective exchange rate (REER) of Canada. Estimated results indicate a long run relation between immigrants’ funds and exchange rate with immigrants' funds leading to a significant appreciation of the exchange rate in Canada. These results are robust to different estimation methods and an alternative proxy measure for the funds brought into Canada by immigrants

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