Research Catalog

Title

Empirical studies in Caribbean economy / edited by Patrick Kent Watson and Alain Maurin.

Publication

St. Augustine : Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies, The University of the West Indies, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

• Watson, Patrick.
• Maurin, Alain.
• Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies.

Description

xx, 324 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Technical papers series ; vols. 5 & 6

Uniform Title

Technical papers series (Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies) ; 5 & 6.

Subjects

• Caribbean, English-speaking > Economic policy
• Barbados > Economic conditions
• Unemployment > Barbados
• Economic forecasting > Jamaica
• Monetary policy > Guyana
• Caribbean, English-speaking > Economic conditions
• Economic forecasting > Trinidad and Tobago
• Tourism > Caribbean, English-speaking > Econometric models

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The contribution of the monetary studies programme to Caribbean econometric modelling / Patrick Kent Watson and Nicole Smith -- Unemployment in Barbados: 1980-1996 / Roland Craigwell and Ann-Marie Warner -- Short-term modelling and forecasting with vector autoregression and state space models: applications to Trinidad and Tobago / Alain Maurin and Jean Gabriel Montauban -- The persistence of shocks on Barbadian economic activity / Patrice Borda, Olivier Manioc and Jean Gabriel Montauban -- Tourism maturity and demand / Peter H. Whitehall and Kevin Greenidge -- Interest rates, savings and growth in Guyana / Patrick Kendall -- Defining and estimating a monetary conditions index for Jamaica: theoreticial and empirical issues / Claney Lattie -- Policy making and forecasting in Trinidad and Tobago using a medium-size structural econometric model / Patrick Kent Watson and Sonja S. Teelucksingh.

ISBN

9768188006

OCLC

• ocm47728251
• SCSB-4152517

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries