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The Financial Evolution of the Caribbean Community (2nd Edition 1996 – 2008)

An Updated, comprehensive documentation of the post-Independence financial history of the Caribbean countries.

2009

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The Fiscal Experience in the Caribbean – Emerging Issues and Problems

Brings together a set of country essays and thematic studies by experienced researchers and academics who reflect on major fiscal issues and challenges facing Caribbean states in recent years

2004 Ramesh Ramsaran

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The Regulation of Non-Bank Financial Institutions in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union

Critically evaluates the regulatory and supervisory systems in place for non-bank financial institutions, identifies the weakness and gaps in the current systems, evaluates the special problems faced by regulators in a common currency area, analyses the various options for the improvement of these systems and makes recommendations for the development of appropriate regulatory and supervisory systems for the ECCU.

2004
Garth Nicholls
Dave Seerattan

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Banking in Small States: The Case of Caribbean Commercial Banks

Examines the structure of commercial banking in the Caribbean, the behaviour and performance of banks and the nexus between banking and growth.

2003 Anthony Birchwood

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Caribbean Mergers and Acquisitions: Country Studies of the Financial Sectors of Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago

Documents some of the mergers in financial institutions in Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago during the 1990s.

2001 Glen A. Khan

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Empirical Studies in Caribbean Economy

Takes a retrospective look at the empirical modelling work that has been carried out in the Caribbean

2000
Alain Maurin
Patrick Watson

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Monetary Transmission Mechanisms : Their Operation Under Fixed and Floating Rate Regimes : The Experience of a Group of Caribbean Countries

Provides some insights into the transmission methods that operate within the Caribbean

1998 Glen A. Khan

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The Impact of US Dollar Deposits on CARICOM Economies

Examines the impact of US dollar deposits in the banking systems of certain Caribbean countries on the cost and availability of credit and the ability of central banks to perform their monetary management functions.

1998 Karl M. Bennett

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Econometric Modelling of Issues in Caribbean Economics and Finance

Contains select papers at the cutting edge of attempts to deal with the problems inherent in executing applied econometric research in a Caribbean environment characterized by short data sets and the paucity of high frequency data.

1998
Sang W. Kim
Terence Agbeyegbe

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The Financial Evolution of the Caribbean Community (1970 -1996)

A comprehensive documentation of the post-Independence financial history of the Caribbean countries. An update is in preparation

1997
Laurence Clarke
Donna Danns

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Essays in the Honour of William G. Dumas - Towards a Caribbean Economy in the Twenty-First Century

1997
Laurence Clarke
M.G. Zephrin

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Liquidity Management in Liberalising Economies: Some Experiences from the Caribbean

A collection of papers and commentaries drawn from a workshop organized around four topics: monetary management in liberalizing economies, policy issues in liquidity management, operational responses, and the implications for the public sector-private sector nexus for monetary policy and liquidity management.

1996
Laurence Clarke
Hyginus Leon

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The Savings Investment Environment in the Caribbean : Emerging Imperatives

This volume pulls together a varied collection of studies focussing on policy and institutional behaviour. It underlines the need to get behind savings and investment aggregates and to improve the links between the financial and real sectors.

1995 Ramesh F. Ramsaran

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Insights into an Emerging Financial Structure: The Experience of Trinidad and Tobago

The contributions in this volume are intended to provide some insights into Trinidad and Tobago’s evolving financial structure and the institutional impact of changes in the policy environment.

1995 Ramesh Ramsaran

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Cross-Border Trading in the Caribbean

An assessment of the promises and pitfalls of cross-border trading in the newly emerging financial markets of the Caribbean.

1994 S.B. Jones-Hendrickson

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Economic Liberalization and Caribbean Development

Papers and discussions from a forum convened to address the implications of the ‘floating’ of the T&T dollar against the background of experiences in other parts of the Caribbean

1993
Lloyd Best
Norman Girvan
C.Y. Thomas
Ramesh Ramsaran

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