The Eastern Caribbean Currency Union : Would a Fiscal Insurance Mechanism Mitigate National Income Shocks? /
This paper studies the nature of the shocks affecting the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), and examines whether a hypothetical Eastern Caribbean fiscal insurance mechanism could insure member countries of the union against asymmetric national income shocks. The empirical results suggest that...
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Format: | Journal |
Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2012.
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Series: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2012/017 |
Online Access: | Full text available on IMF |