The paper assesses the impact of physicians' dual practice on public health services. Using a simple theoretical model we conjecture that dual practice may increase the number of patients seen but reduce hours spent at public facilities in weak monitoring environment if public physicians lack...

The elicitation of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS), discount factor, and risk attitude parameters in dynamic models is of central importance to economics, finance and public policy. This paper suggests an alternative method to jointly elicit and estimate these three parameters...

Persistent current account deficits are common among low- and middle-income countries. We evaluate when this situation triggers a crisis and characterize it. Using a non-parametric estimator, we find a critical value for the yearly current account deficit just before the crisis sets off. These...