Dave Seerattan

Research Fellow

B.Sc. Economics, M.Sc. Economics (UWI)

Tel: (868) 645-1174 – ext. 2552

Email: Dave.Seerattan@sta.uwi.edu

Dave Seerattan is currently a Research Fellow at the Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. He has researched and published in the areas of financial innovations, financial regulations, financial market microstructure, foreign exchange markets, mutual fund performance in the Caribbean and tax reform in the Caribbean. He has been a consultant in the areas of financial market development, regulatory systems for the financial sector, mutual funds performance, interest rate forecasting and business competitiveness in the Caribbean. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Economics from the University of the West Indies, where he specialized in money and finance. Mr. Seerattan is co-author and co-editor of the books on Financial Innovations, Regulation of Non-Bank Financial Institutions and Finance and Real Development in the Caribbean. He has served as a member of a number of Trinidad and Tobago Government Cabinet appointed committees on the financial sector.

Journals

Seerattan, D. The Efficiency of Central Bank Intervention in Select Caribbean Countries – published in the Journal of Business, Finance and Economics in Emerging Economies, Volume 1, Number 1, 2006.

Seerattan, D. Exchange Rate Regimes and Fiscal Discipline in the Caribbean – published in Social and Economic Studies, Volume 49, numbers 2 and 3, 2000.

Chapters in Books

Seerattan, D. and L. Charles. The Increasing Reliance on Indirect Taxes: Welfare Implications for the Caribbean – Published in The Fiscal Experience in the Caribbean: Emerging Issues and Problems ed. Ramesh Ramsaran, CCMS, 2004, pages 733-777.

Seerattan, D. Tax Reform and Financial Development in Trinidad and Tobago -Published in Finance and Real Development in the Caribbean eds. A. Birchwood and D. Seerattan, CCMS, 2006, pages 195-220.

Seerattan, D. and A. Birchwood. Financial Market Integration, arbitrage and Interest Rate Parity in the Caribbean – Published in Finance and Real Development in the Caribbean eds. A. Birchwood and D. Seerattan, CCMS, 2006, pages 465-481.

Books

Nicholls, G. and D. Seerattan. The Regulation of Non-bank Financial Institutions in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies, 2004.

Seerattan, D. and A. Birchwood (eds.) Finance and Real Development in the Caribbean, CCMS, 2006.

Consulting and Technical Reports

- Caribbean Economic Performance Report 2003 – Part of team from the CARICOM Secretariat, Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies and Caribbean Development Bank that prepared the report for COFAP.

- Member of the Technical Team that Assisted in the Preparation of the Report (the Green Paper) of the Committee Appointed by Cabinet to Review the Financial Sector of Trinidad and Tobago, May 2003.

- A member of the Cabinet Appointed Vision 2020 Financial Services Sub-Committee that prepared the final Vision 2020 Report on the Financial System of Trinidad and Tobago, September 2003.

- A member of the Cabinet appointed Committee that prepared the White Paper on the Reform of the Financial System in Trinidad and Tobago, May 2004.

- Project Leader of Team that Designed and Built a Money Market Interest Rate Forecasting Model for Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago with software interface for a Major Player in the Caribbean Money Market, August 2004.

- Part of team that prepared the Study on the Collective Investment Vehicle Industry in Trinidad and Tobago for the Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission and the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, December 2005.

- Part of team that prepared report on competitiveness and innovation in CARIFORUM countries in relation to CARIFORUM-EU EPA agreement for CDE/UNIDO, October 2008.