The fallout from the COVID-19 crisis is hitting ECCU economies hard. Tourism receipts (accounting for nearly 40 percent … summer has led to a surge in COVID cases. The ECCU economy is projected to contract by 16 percent in 2020 and by a further …

We measure the impact of frequent exogeneous shocks on small ECCU economies, including changes to global economic … Covid-19 related shocks lead to substantial contractions in output in all ECCU countries and deterioration of the current …

(ECCU) using an insurance layering framework. The layers include a government saving fund, as well as market instruments … indicate that ECCU countries could target saving fund stocks for relativelly smaller and more frequent events in the range of 6 …

ECCU. Preserving and, possibly, enhancing the competitiveness of the tourism product is key for these countries …. Unfortunately, the evidence shows that tourism arrivals to the ECCU have been declining slightly while global demand for tourism is … on the rise. The objective of this paper is to study the structural determinants of competitiveness for the ECCU, defined …

Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU). We assess interest rate pass-through of both the U.S. policy rate and the ECCU minimum saving …

Currency Union (ECCU). Favorable external conditions continue to support economic recovery in the ECCU, but flat tourism …