00702nam a2200109Ia 4500080001900000100002100019245005600040260002300096300000900119520044500128583001900573  a11.02.01 R3361  aBennett, Karl M.  aAdjustment costs of monetary integration in CARICOM  bISERaMonaJAc1993  a26p.  aReviews the theoretical approaches adopted for assessing the costs of participating in a monetary union. Looks at the use of instruments of macroeconomic policy in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica & Trinidad and Tobago over the decade of the eighties. Attempts to derive estimates of the potential costs to the economies of Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago of having to forego control over the use of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policy.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR