This paper uses a VAR and VECM framework to examine whether financial development causes growth or vice-versa employing aggregate annual time-series data on Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago. The results indicate that a long-run...

This study examines the disciplanary effect of monetary union in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM); specifically, whether there is a systematic difference between fiscal discipline in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU), a sub-regular grouping in CARICOM and other CARICOM members which...