Birg, Laura - In: Health Economics 32 (2022) 2, pp. 302-323
I study the effect of a change in the mandatory manufacturer rebate and a price freeze on wholesale prices for … pharmaceuticals on competition by parallel imports. First, I analyze the effect of a manufacturer rebate on competition by parallel … imports in a two‐country model. Second, I exploit a policy reform in Germany in 2010 that increased the manufacturer rebate by …