Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2008
We study the impact of regulatory regimes on generic competition and pharmaceutical pricing using a unique policy … experiment in Norway, where reference pricing (RP) replaced price cap regulation in 2003 for a sub-sample of off-patent products … that RP increases generic competition, resulting in lower brand-name market shares. Finally, we show that RP has a strong …