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24May2023

An Investigation into the Diversification Effects of Bitcoin for Caribbean Market Investors Over the last decade, cryptocurrencies have been growing rapidly in popularity. Most investors...

23May2023

The Impact of the Sectoral Distribution of Credit on the External Current Account in Barbados

This paper seeks to determine the impact that the growth in the sectoral distribution of credit...

14Apr2023

Throwing Darts and Missing the Bullseye: Fiscal and Debt Sustainability in Open Economies This paper seeks to determine the impact that the growth in the sectoral distribution of credit and other control variables can have on the external current account balance in Barbados....

08Jun2022

Estimating the Sizes of Buoyancy and Elasticity of the Tax System in Barbados Over the Period 1990 to 2019 The paper finds that total tax revenue is buoyant in the long-run and non-buoyant in the short run as well as elastic in the long run and inelastic in the short-run. ......

08Jun2022

The Determinants of Job Losses Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Small Island Developing States Utilising a survey of 1,979 firms in the Caribbean and a Probit regression model, the study identifies the key factors that might lead a firm to retrench staff....

31Dec2021

Expanding the Central Bank’s Tool Kit: Credit Guarantee Schemes in a Small Island Developing State by Shekira Thompson and Winston Moore The COVID-19 pandemic was a negative shock to the real economy which induced both liquidity...

31Dec2021

Financial Knowledge and Retirement Planning in Barbados by Lisa Brathwaite Phillips Since the 2008 global financial crisis, an increasing number of studies have sought to underscore...

29Nov2021

How Do Fiscal Rules Impact Investments for Small Open Economies? by Keisha N. Bladesand Ankie Scott-Joseph

This research study investigates the impact of fiscal rules on...

29Oct2021

MMT-Like Activities in a Managed Exchange Rate Economy by Tarron Khemraj

A debt ceiling limit and overdraft on the government’s central bank...

17Jan2018

Estimating the Total Economic Value of La Pointe des Châteaux,Guadeloupe: A Contingent Valuation Approach by Nlandu Mamingi, Alain Maurin and Jean-Gabriel Montauban. Tourism dynamism is an important indicator of the economic health of most Caribbean economies. Not...

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