Income-based price subsidies, parallel imports and markets access to new drugs for the poor

Rajat Acharyya and María D. C. García-Alonso

In health markets, government policies tend to subsidize poorer groups. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the implications of an income-based subsidy policy on the incentives of countries to implement price arbitrage and of firms to provide market access to poorer groups. -- Pharmaceuticals ; Income Based Subsidies ; Parallel Imports ; Market Access

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Year of publication:	2008
Other Persons:	Acharyya, Rajat (contributor) ; García-Alonso, María del Carmen (contributor)
Publisher:	Canterbury : Univ. of Kent, Dep. of Economics
Subject:	Gesundheitswesen \| Health care system \| Arzneimittel \| Pharmaceuticals \| Gesundheitskosten \| Health care costs \| Niedrigeinkommen \| Low income \| Öffentliche Sozialleistungen \| Social security benefits \| Preisdifferenzierung \| Price discrimination \| Theorie \| Theory

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 16 S.)
Series:	Discussion papers / University of Kent, School of Economics. - Canterbury : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2196631-X. - Vol. 08,20
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzung: Acrobat reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/50612 [Handle]
Classification:	D4 - Market Structure and Pricing ; L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance ; I1 - Health ; Pharmazie, Pharmazeutika
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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