of brand name pharmaceuticals, while the results regarding generics are less clear. In the empirical part of the paper …, the introduction of the substitution reform in the Swedish pharmaceuticals market in October 2002 is used as a natural … reform has lowered the price of both brand name and generic pharmaceuticals …

Constantly rising expenditures for pharmaceuticals require government intervention in firms' pricing decisions. To this …

-patent pharmaceuticals. We present a theoretical model with price-sensitive and loyal consumers that shows that a decrease in the reference …

pharmaceuticals to examine how incumbents respond to change in the threat of entry. In line with the entry deterrence motive …

In October 2002, a substitution reform was introduced in the Swedish pharmaceuticals market. In this paper, the effects …

Introduction: In 2009, the Swedish pharmaceuticals market was reformed. One of the stated policy goals was to achieve … generic pharmaceuticals have been collected, and a log-linear regression model was used to estimate how the policy changes … supplying off-patent pharmaceuticals experienced a clear reduction in the price received for their products. …