Inflation in Barbados is mainly imported. But how are external shocks transmitted to the domestic economy? Shouldn … are likely to be formed in Barbados; (ii) we add forward looking inflation expectations as one of the main channels … component of the inflation expectation process in Barbados and that they are a key channel in the international monetary …

This paper examines the causes, processes, and outcomes of Barbados' 2018-19 sovereign debt restructuring-its first … treasury bills, and the use of a retrofitted collective action mechanism. The debt restructuring has helped to set Barbados …

This paper is a first analysis of daily transactions in the foreign exchange market of Barbados, a small open economy …

The paper analyzes the determinants of banking spreads in Barbados, with a view to identifying the role of the monetary … policy regime in explaining high spreads. The paper finds that interest rate spreads for Barbados are higher than would be …

shared colonial origins, economic performance and social indicators in Guyana and Barbados have continued to diverge. The …

This paper discusses the institutional arrangements for exchange rate targeting in Barbados and the critical role they …

In the late 1980s Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago found themselves in severe economic difficulties …

This paper uses the balance sheet approach to analyze macroeconomic vulnerabilities in Barbados between 2006 and 2009 … deterioration in the balance sheet of the nonfinancial public sector. Macroeconomic vulnerabilities have increased in Barbados since …

A banking system module is incorporated into the Central Bank of Barbados''s multisectoral macroeconomic forecasting … stable and resilient to macroeconomic shocks of a type and magnitude that Barbados has experienced in the past …