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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Huvudupphovsman: Sosa, Sebastian
Övriga upphovsmän: Cashin, Paul
Materialtyp: Tidskrift
Språk:English
Publicerad: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/159
Länkar:Full text available on IMF