{"product_id":"monetary-policy-central-banking-and-derick-boyd-9789766402525","title":"Monetary Policy, Central Banking and Economic Performance in the Caribbean","description":"Despite their common British colonial heritage, the twelve Caribbean economies examined in this book exhibit a wide variety of monetary regimes. These include a currency union, currency board, and fixed and floating exchange rate regimes which allow for a range of rules and discretionary-based monetary policies. Derick Boyd and Ron Smith trace the historical origins and evolution of this variety of Caribbean institutions and examine the effect of policy regime on economic performance, using theoretical economic analysis and several econometric techniques, which they explain in detail. Their conclusion is that better economic performance has benefited from an embedded tradition of conservative central banking, either hardwired, as in the case of a currency board, or through discretionary policies, a tradition which seems to have been largely eroded in the resource-rich economies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Derick Boyd,Ron Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9766402523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789766402525\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of the West Indies Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.80h x 7.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Derick Boyd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965901586687,"sku":"9789766402525","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_11692266-2672-477c-ac29-f16d9542299a.jpg?v=1767285635","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/monetary-policy-central-banking-and-derick-boyd-9789766402525","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}