Tennant, Sandria and Tennant, David. 2007. The Efficiency of Tax Administration in Jamaica: An Introspective Assessment. Social and Economic Studies 56(3): 71-100
Tennant, David and Kirton, Claremont. 2007. The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment, Financial Crises and Organizational Culture on Managers' Views as to the Finance-Growth Nexus. Journal of Economic Issues . 41(3): 625-660.
Tennant, David. 2007. A Comparison of the Mobilization and Use of Savings Across Types of Financial Intermediaries in the Jamaican Economy. Savings and Development . 31(1): 45-68.
Tennant, David and Kirton, Claremont. 2007. Can the Financial Sector Realistically be Expected to Foster Economic Growth? An Analysis of Jamaican Stakeholders' Views. Global Development Studies . 4(3-4): 251-290
Tennant, David . 2007. Investigating the Performance of Caribbean Commercial Banks in their Mobilization and Use of Savings. Iberoamericana Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies . 37(2): 55-88.
Tennant, David . 2006. Are Interest Rate Spreads in Jamaica too Large? Views from within the Financial Sector. Social and Economic Studies 55(3): 88-111
Tennant, David . 2006. Lessons Learnt by the Survivors of Jamaica's Financial Sector Crisis. Savings and Development 30(1): 5-22.
Tennant, David and Kirton, Claremont. 2006. Assessing the Impact of Financial Instability: The Jamaican Case Study. Iberoamericana Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies . 36(1):9-36.
Kirkpatrick, Colin and Tennant, David . 2002. Responding to Financial Crisis: The Case of Jamaica. World Development 30(11): 1933-1950.
Tennant, David and Folawewo, Abiodun. Macroeconomic and Market Determinants of Interest Rate Spreads in Low and Middle Income Countries. Applied Financial Economics . Accepted – Forthcoming
Tennant, David , Kirton, Claremont and Abdulkadri, Abdullahi. Modelling the Relative Effects of Financial Sector Functions on Economic Growth in a Developing Country Context Using Cointegration and Error Correction Methods. Journal of Developing Areas. Accepted – Forthcoming
Tennant, David and Abdulkadri, Abdullahi. Exercises in Estimating the Relative Effects of Different Types of Financial Institutions on Economic Growth. Applied Economics. . Accepted – Forthcoming
Research Interests:
Financing Development; Financial Crises; Microfinance; Poverty; Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Research Interests:
Darron Thomas' research interests are in financial markets and institutions, and emerging markets. In general, I am interested in Industrial Organizations with a focus on competitive conduct, anti-trust policy and the New Empirical Industrial Organization (NEIO). My emphasis is guiding economic policy recommendations through empirical and theoretical research. I am also interested in industry structure as well as the development and operation of firms and enterprises.
Research Record
Unpublished Undertakings:
• Implications of Optimal Regulation with Differentiated Products under Sub-Prime Lending Conditions.
• Vertical Product Differentiation under a Variable Marginal Cost Structure.
• Taking the Guess Work Out of Guest Worker Programs (with Eleanor Brown, Harvard Law School).
Work In Progress:
• Money Demand in the US : A Semi-Parametric Approach
• Private Provision of Public Goods: Can heterogeneous Agents Solve the Problem?
• A Theory of Countervailing Power with Possibly Atomistic Consumers
