Macroeconomic Fluctuations in the Caribbean : The Role of Climatic and External Shocks /

This paper develops country-specific VAR models with block exogeneity restrictions to analyze how exogenous factors affect business cycles in the Eastern Caribbean. It finds that external shocks play a key role, explaining more than half of macroeconomic fluctuations in the region. Domestic business...

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Autor principal: Sosa, Sebastian
Outros Autores: Cashin, Paul
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/159
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF