TY - BOOK AU - Sosa, Sebastián TI - Macroeconomic fluctuations in the Caribbean : the role of climatic and external shocks PY - 2009/// CY - [Washington]US PB - IMF N2 - Develops country-specific VAR models with block exogeneity restrictions to analyze how exogenous factors affect business cycles in the Eastern Caribbean. Finds that external shocks play a key role, explaining more than half of macroeconomic fluctuations in the region ER -