00731nam a2200121Ia 450000500170000008000190001710000210003624500560005726000230011330000090013652004450014558300190059020260716043141.0  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