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Programmes

Research programmes and projects.

Five programmes organize the research agenda. Every project inside them carries an identifier, so its outputs — papers, models and datasets — stay traceable.

Programme

Financial Institutions

How Caribbean banks, credit unions and insurers take, measure and absorb risk — and what better monitoring would look like.

Credit riskLiquidity riskPortfolio monitoringInstitutional resilienceFinancial performanceInsurance reserving
ALG-R-2026-001

Caribbean Credit Union Delinquency Study

How does delinquency develop across credit-union loan books, and which signals appear early enough to act on?

In Research
ALG-R-2026-003

Caribbean Bank Concentration Study

How concentrated are regional bank balance sheets by borrower, sector and funding source?

Exploring
ALG-R-2026-008

Claims Experience and Reserve Adequacy in Caribbean Insurers

How well do reserving practices reflect regional claims experience?

Exploring
Programme

Economic Systems

Inflation, exchange rates and public finance in small open economies, measured with the data that actually exists.

InflationForeign exchangePublic financeTradeEconomic development
ALG-R-2026-002

Jamaica FX Market Microstructure

How do liquidity, intervention and turnover interact in the Jamaican foreign-exchange market?

In Research
ALG-R-2026-007

Public Finance and Fiscal Space in Small States

How much fiscal room do small island states have, and how quickly can it disappear?

Exploring
Programme

Capital Markets

The structure, depth and pricing of regional securities markets, and the information investors are missing.

Market structureInvestment intelligenceSecurities analysisBond marketsCapital formation
ALG-R-2026-006

Bond Market Depth in the Caribbean

How should depth and liquidity be measured in thin, infrequently traded regional bond markets?

Exploring
Programme

Financial Data Infrastructure

Turning fragmented regional financial information into standardized, documented, reusable datasets.

Data standardizationEconomic APIsInstitutional datasetsOpen financial dataData quality
ALG-R-2026-004

Regional Financial Data Standardization

What common schema would let financial data from different jurisdictions be compared reliably?

In Research
Programme

Decision Science

Forecasting, simulation and early-warning methods that help institutions act before problems become losses.

ForecastingScenario analysisSimulationOptimizationEarly-warning systems
ALG-R-2026-005

Early-Warning Indicators for Loan Portfolios

Which combination of loan-level and macro indicators gives the most reliable early warning of credit deterioration?

In Research