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pharmaceuticals, specifically drug reformulation regulatory gaming. …
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Price controls create opportunities for international arbitrage. Many have argued that such arbitrage, if tolerated … pharmaceuticals. We challenge this orthodox view and show, to the contrary, that the pace of innovation often is faster in a world … conclusion is to recognize that governments will make different choices of price controls when parallel imports are allowed by …
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This paper addresses the relationship between patent protection and investment in the development of new pharmaceutical treatments. The TRIPS Agreement, which specifies minimum levels of intellectual property protection for countries in the World Trade Organization, has increased levels of...
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the hypothesis that innovation in pharmaceuticals is becoming more difficult and expensive over time, as costs of …
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creating an internal market for pharmaceuticals can be analysed. In a model of third-degree price discrimination, arbitrage … Market in pharmaceuticals are ambiguous, since a movement from segmented and price-controlled markets towards integrated … between two markets and price controls through governments in one market are introduced. The effects of easier arbitrage …
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Preventives are sold ex ante, before disease status is realized, while treatments are sold ex post. Even if the mean of the ex ante distribution of consumer values is the same as that ex post, the shape of the distributions may differ, generating a difference between the surplus each product can...
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We provide a method allowing to identify margins in an oligopoly price competition game when prices may not be freely … from the US, Germany and France to identify country-specific demand models and then recover price cost margins under the … regulated price setting constraints on the French market. To do so, we estimate a structural model on the market for anti …
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In this paper we estimate a New-Keynesian DSGE model with heterogeneity in price and wage setting behavior. In a recent … study, Coibion and Gorodnichenko (2011) develop a DSGE model, in which firms follow four different types of price setting … heterogeneity in wage rigidity, such as the persistence in price and the wage inflation, which a standard New Keynesian model with …
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This Paper analyses the effect of a possible takeover on information flows and on the terms of trade in business relationships. We consider a long-term relationship between a firm and a privately-informed stakeholder, a buyer for example. In our model, takeovers both increase the surplus from...
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This Paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc zone and the East Caribbean Currency Area). We empirically explore different features of currency unions, and compare them both to countries with sovereign monies, and to regions within...
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