Brekke, Kurt Richard; Grasdal, Astrid; Holmas, Tor Helge - 2021
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 existing price cap (PC) regulation. We estimate the effect of the reform using a product level panel … dataset, covering the drugs exposed to RP and a large number of drugs still under PC regulation in the time before and after …