Name: Professor Claremont Kirton
Email: claremont.kirton@uwimona.edu.jm
Office: Room 16
Telephone: 876 790 6285
Nationality: Guyanese Jamaican
Office Hours: (TBA)
Qualifications: UWI Mona
Papers Presented:
Remittances: The Experience of CARICOM Countries: Trends and Policy Issues, 2008 Annual Caribbean StudiesAssociation (CSA) Meeting, San Andres, Colombia. May 26-30, 2008.
Economic Links between the Integration Schemes of Latin
America and the Caribbean: An assessment 2008, X
International Conference of Economists on Globalization and
Development Problems, Havana, Cuba, May 3-7, 2008, pp. 57.
CSME - 'The Platform for Growth and Expansion of the
Regional Financial Services Industry, Caribbean Association
of Indigenous Banks (CAIB) Conference, Guyana, November
12-14, 2007.
Uses of formally and informally channelled remittances and
their developmental effects - the Jamaican case, Remittances
and Micro-finance - Opportunities for Development, IADB,
Paramaribo, Suriname, September 13, 2007.
(with Tennant, David and Abdulahi Abdulkadri) Modelling
the Relative Effects of Financial Sector Functions on Economic
Growth in a Developing Country Context Using Cointegration
and Error Correction Methods, Department of Economics/
336
Association of Caribbean Economists Conference: Kingston,
Jamaica. September 2007, pp. 38.
Publications
(with Alleyne, Dillon, Georgia McLeod and Mark Figueroa).
“Short-run macroeconomic determinants of remittances to
Jamaica: a time varying parameter approach, Applied
Economics Letters, Volume 15, Issue 8 June 2008, pp 629-634.
(with Alleyne, Dillon and Mark Figueroa). Macroeconomic
Determinants of Migrant Remittances to Caribbean
Countries: Panel Unit Roots and Cointegration, Journal of
Developing Areas, 2008, 41, 2, pp. 137-153.
(with Tennant, David). The Impact of Foreign Direct
Investment, Financial Crises and Organizational Culture on
Managers, Journal of Economic Issues. March. Vol. XLI No. 3
September 2007, pp. 625 - 661.
(with Tennant, David). Can the Financial Sector
Realistically be expected to Foster Economic Growth? An
Analysis of Jamaican Stakeholders Views. Global
Development Studies , 2007, 4, 3-4, pp. 251-290
Courses:
ECON3051 (EC36M)
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