Brekke, Kurt R.; Grasdal, Astrid L.; Holmås, Tor Helge - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2006
We study the relationship between regulatory regimes and pharmaceutical firms’ pricing strategies using a unique policy experiment from Norway, which in 2003 introduced a reference price (RP) system called “index pricing” for a sub-sample of off-patent pharmaceuticals, replacing the...