A project to establish the Thailand National Neonatal Screening Program was started in 1996 with the objective of screening every newborn for congenital hypothyroidism and phenylketonuria. Over a million newborns were screened and over 430 abnormal cases were detected. A study was also conducted to determine the feasibility of including CAH screening in the program. The incidence of this diseas...

This paper proposes a theory of when labor contract should be nominal or, instead, indexed. We find that, contracts should be indexed if prices are difficult to forecast and nominal otherwise. We use a principalagent model developed by Jovanovic and Ueda (1997), with moral hazard, renegotiation, and where a signal (the nominal value of the sales of the agent) is observed before renegotiation ta...

In recent years, a number of countries have changed their central banking institutions. Often these reforms involve granting long terms of office to central bankers. This threatens to limit the extent to which the central bank can be held accountability. Dismissal rules can help ensure accountability, and, in the presence of inßation shocks, the socially optimal commitment policy is supported b...