Between 1950 and 1978, per capita real dental expenfitures in the U.S. grew at an average annual rate of 3.33%. Between 1978 and 1989 there was virtually no net growth in this measure of dental care utilization. This sharp curtailment of utilization growth has prompted debate about the sources...

This paper is based on the classification of healthcare services and public health actions in light of some fundamental principles of public economics. Specifically, public health actions can be regarded as a public good while healthcare services seem to be a private good. This difference should...

Regional integration proposals often require agreements between countries that differ in geographic size, resource endowments, transportation assets, technologies, and product quality. In this asymmetric setting, questions arise about the potential for mutual gains and the distribution of...