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The Eastern Caribbean Currency Union: Institutions, Performance, and Policy Issues

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  • Mrs. Ruby Randall
  • Mr. Jorge Shepherd
  • Mr. Frits Van Beek
  • Mr. J. R. Rosales
  • Ms. Mayra Rebecca Zermeno

Abstract

The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank is one of just a few regional central banks in the world and the only one where the member countries have pooled all their foreign reserves, the convertability of the common currency is fully self-supported, and the parity of the exchange rate has not changed. This occasional paper reviews recent developments, policy issues, and institutional arrangements in the member countries of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, and looks at the regional financial system, its supervision, and the central bank's initiatives to establish a single financial space. The paper includes a large amount of statistical information that is not readily available elsewhere from a single source.

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  • Mrs. Ruby Randall & Mr. Jorge Shepherd & Mr. Frits Van Beek & Mr. J. R. Rosales & Ms. Mayra Rebecca Zermeno, 2000. "The Eastern Caribbean Currency Union: Institutions, Performance, and Policy Issues," IMF Occasional Papers 2000/012, International Monetary Fund.
  • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfops:2000/012
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    1. Ricci, Luca Antonio, 2008. "A Model of an Optimum Currency Area," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), vol. 2, pages 1-31.
    2. -, 2004. "Issues, effects and implications of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Agreement for CARICOM economies," Sede Subregional de la CEPAL para el Caribe (Estudios e Investigaciones) 27552, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
    3. Mr. Pablo F Druck & Mr. Mario Dehesa, 2008. "The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank: Challenges to an Effective Lender of Last Resort," IMF Working Papers 2008/214, International Monetary Fund.
    4. John Hawkins & Paul Masson, 2003. "Economic aspects of regional currency areas and the use of foreign currencies," BIS Papers chapters, in: Bank for International Settlements (ed.), Regional currency areas and the use of foreign currencies, volume 17, pages 4-42, Bank for International Settlements.
    5. Aman, Moustapha & Nenovsky, Nikolay, 2022. "Monetary stability and regional currency board: towards a two-tier system to accelerate regional integration in the Horn of Africa: a policy proposal," MPRA Paper 115605, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Aman, Moustapha & Nenovsky, Nikolay, 2022. "Stabilité monétaire et Currency Board régional : Vers un système à deux niveaux pour accélérer l'intégration régionale dans la Corne de l'Afrique. (Une proposition de politique monétaire) [Monetary," MPRA Paper 115298, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    7. Lee, Hyunchul & Kim, Heeho, 2020. "Time varying integration of European stock markets and monetary drivers," Journal of Empirical Finance, Elsevier, vol. 58(C), pages 369-385.

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