Tarron Khemraj
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., New School for Social Research
M.A., University of Manchester
B.Soc.Sc., University of Guyana
His primary teaching interests are economic development, econometrics, international economics and the history of economic thought. He also serves as a research associate at the Caribbean Center for Money and Finance, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. In addition, he writes a fortnightly column, Development Watch, for Stabroek News in Guyana. He is also an alumnus of The Cambridge Advanced Programme for Rethinking Development Economics (CAPORDE 2006 and 2007).
Selected Publications
The simple analytics of oligopoly banking in developing economies.” Journal of Business, Finance and Economics in Emerging Economies, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2010.
'What does excess bank liquidity say
about the loan market in Less Developed Countries?' Oxford Economic
Papers, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2010.
'Excess liquidity and the foreign currency constraint: the case of monetary management in Guyana.' Applied Economics, Vol. 41, No. 16, 2009.
'The missing link: the finance-growth nexus and the Guyanese growth stagnation.' Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 57, Nos. 3&4, 2008.
'Excess liquidity and monetary policy in Guyana.' Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2007.
"Fiscal sustainability and foreign dependency: the case of Guyana," Transition, Issue 35 (2006).
'Okun's law and jobless growth.' Policy Note No. 3, Schwartz Centre for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School for Social Research, March 2006 (with Willi Semmler and Jeff Madrick).
'Analysis of savings behavior in Guyana.' (with Anand Persaud) in A. Birchwood and D. Seerattan (editors). Finance and Real Development in the Caribbean, Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies, University of the West Indies (2006).
Working Papers and Current Research
'The W.A. Lewis legacy of industrialization and Caribbean economic policy.'
'Foreign exchange market bid-ask spread and market power in an underdeveloped economy.' (with Sukrishnalall Pasha)
'Banking in the developing world: growth, distribution and financial intermediation.'
