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Optimal Reserves in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union

By Wendell A. Samuel, Emilio Pineda, Mario Dehesa

April 1, 2009

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Wendell A. Samuel, Emilio Pineda, and Mario Dehesa. Optimal Reserves in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2009) accessed September 19, 2024
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Summary

Recent turbulence in global and Caribbean regional financial markets underscore the importance of reassessing the adequacy of international reserves held by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). Using the Jeanne (2007) optimization framework, this paper finds that international reserves held by the ECCB are generally adequate for a variety of external current account and capital account shocks. However, the ECCB would be challenged in the event of moderate to severe deposit outflows.

Subject: Capital account, Current account, External debt, International reserves, Monetary base

Keywords: Opportunity cost, Reserve, Reserve cover rule, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    20

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2009/077

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2009077

  • ISBN:

    9781451872248

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941