Abstract Remittance inflows are driven by macroeconomic conditions in the home and host economies, respectively. In this paper, we study effect of US monetary policy on remittance flows into economies Latin American Caribbean. The role Fed for remittances has not yet been studied. We estimate a series panel local projections eight countries. A surprise change strong highly significant negative ...

six year after the terrorist attacks on the world trade center and pentagon on september 11, 2001 and the onset of us- led war in iraq and afghanistan in line with the bush's policy of regime-change aimed at establishing pro-western governments in baghdad and kabul, we are still witnessing widespread instability and reign of terror in the region. hasty executive branch anti-terrorism polic...