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The Bank of Jamaica produces papers on various topics on an ongoing basis. These papers target a wide cross section of users such as students, journalists, investors and interested agencies.

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BOJ research publications are listed under the following topics:
Balance of Payments and Components
	Current Account Dynamics and the Real Exchange, Chandar, Henry And Rohan Longmore; 2003
	Current Account Sustainability in Jamaica, Hudson, Suzette And Robert Stennett; 2003
	Current Acount Determinants for the Jamaican Economy, Damian Brown And Carey-anne Williams; 2007
	Imports and the Demand for Foreign Exchange: Evidence from Jamaican Survey Data, Tamalia Franklin; 2006
	Price-Setting Behaviour in the Jamaican Foreign Exchange Market, Tamalia Franklin And Rohan Longmore; 2008
	Tourism Maturity and Demand - Jamaica, Malcolm, Oneil; 2003
	Towards a Sustainable Tourism Product for Jamaica: A Dynamic Simulation Modelling Approach, Jide Lewis; 2007
	Trade Liberalization and the Jamaican Economy - Prospects and Effects of Tariffs Adjustments, Hudson, Suzette; 2003
Debt Management
	A Sovereign Debt Sustainability in Jamaica - A Risk Management Approach, Lewis, Jide; 2004
	Sovereign Debt Risk Management: Quantifying Sovereign Risk in Jamaica, Rasheeda Smith; 2006
Domestic Demand and Components
	Estimating Quarterly Expenditure-based GDP for Jamaica - A General Kalman Filter Approach, Serju, Prudence; 2004
	Public Investment and Growth in Jamaica, Rohan Swaby; 2007
Economic Models
	Estimating a Small Scale Macroeconomic Model of the Jamaican Economy - Some Preliminary Results, Allen, Courtney; Herbert Hall And Wayne Robinson; 2002
	Maximum Likelihood Approach to the Estimation of Markov Transition Matrices Using Proportions Data: An Application to Credit Risk, Zedayne Simister; 2007
	Methodological Approaches to Compiling an International Investment Position for Jamaica, Doctor, Dane; 2004
	Modelling the Jamaican Business Cycle: A Structural Vector Autoregressive Approach, Andre D. Murray; 2007
	Real Shocks, Credibility and Stabilization in a Small Open Economy, Robinson, Wayne; 2001
	State-Space Estimation of Multi-Factor Models of the Term Structure: An Application to Government of Jamaica Bonds, R. Brian Langrin; 2008
	Towards a Sustainable Tourism Product for Jamaica: A Dynamic Simulation Modelling Approach, Jide Lewis; 2007
Exchange Rates
	Estimation of Speculative Attack Models and their Implications for Macroeconomic Policy, Nelson - Douglas, Bosede; 2001
	Measuring Competitiveness in the Jamaican Economy, Henry, Chandar; 2001
	Modelling and Forecasting Exchange Rate Dynamics: An Application of Aysmmetric Volatility Models, Longmore, Rohan And Wayne Robinson; 2004
Financial Institutions
	Capital Requirements and Commercial Bank Behaviour - The Jamaican Experience, Mullings, Robert; 2003
	Commercial Bank Interest Rate Spreads in Jamaica, Robinson, John; 2002
	Developments in the Life Insurance Industry in Jamaica: Consequences for Monetary Policy, Foga, Camille; 2001
	Investigating the Market-Structure - Performance Relationship in the Commercial Banking Sector: Evidence from Jamaica, Sherene A. Bailey; 2007
	Testing for Competition in the Jamaican Banking Sector - Evidence from Bank Level Data, Duncan, Denvil; 2003
Financial Markets
	Measuring Extreme Cross-market Dependence for Risk Management: The Case of Jamaican Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets, Langrin, R. Brian; 2005
	The Microstructure of the Jamaican Foreign Exchange Market: Volumes, Volatility and Spreads, Walker, Annya; 2002
Financial Stability
	A VAR Analysis of the Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks on Banking Sector Loan Quality, Marlon Tracey; 2007
	An Assessment of Volatility Transmission in the Jamaican Financial System, Hurditt, Purcival; 2004
	An Early Warning Model of Bank Failure in Jamaica: An Information Theoretic Approach, Jide Lewis; 2007
	Bank Default Risk and Captial Regulation, Coote, Howard; 2004
	Financial Dedollarization of the Jamaican Economy: A Porfolio Approach, Haughton, Andre Y; 2004
	Maximum Likelihood Approach to the Estimation of Markov Transition Matrices Using Proportions Data: An Application to Credit Risk, Zedayne Simister; 2007
	The Adoption of IAS in Jamaica -Iimplications for Financial Stability, Daley, Jenifer; 2003
Inflation and Prices
	Consumer Price Inflation and Exchange Rate Pass-through in Jamaica, Mcfarlane, Lavern; 2002
	Forecasting Inflation Using Var Analysis, Robinson, Wayne; 1998
	Investigating the Link between Financial Dollarization and Inflation: Evidence from Jamaica, Bailey, Sherene; 2005
	Monetary Conditions and Core Inflation: An Application of Neutral Networks, Serju, Prudence; 2002
Interest Rates
	A Multifactor Model of Interest Rates, R. Brian Langrin; 2007
	The UIP and Time-varying Premia: An Application to the Jamaican Bond Market, Mcfarlane, Lavern; 2003
International Topics
	The Free Trade Areas of the Americas - Some Implications for Jamaica, Ennis, Tanisha; 2003
	The International Oil Market: An Application of the Three-Agent Model, Kamilah Williams; 2008
Labour Markets
	Labour Market and Price Behaviour in Jamaica, Robinson, Wayne; 1998
Monetary Policy Framework
	An Examination of Monetary Policy Tools used in Jamaica: A Comparison to International Best Practices, Karelle Tyrelle; 2007
	An Inflation Targeting Framework for Jamaica - An Empirical Exploration, Nelson-douglas, Bosede; 2004
	Defining and Estimating a Monetary Conditions Index for Jamaica, Lattie, Claney; 1997
	Independent Monetary Policy in a Very Open Economy - challenges, Costs and Benefits, Robinson, John; 1998
	Monetary Policy Rules and the Transmission Mechanism in Jamaica, Allen, Courtney And Wayne Robinson; 2004
Monetary Policy, Transmission of
	Monetary Policy and the Jamaica Economy - A Sectoral Analysis, Serju, Prudence; 2003
	The Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy in Jamaica, Robinson, Wayne And John Robinson; 1997