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Direct to consumer advertising in pharmaceutical markets

Brekke, Kurt R.; Kuhn, Michael - 2005

We study effects of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) in the prescription drug market. There are two pharmaceutical firms providing horizontally differentiated (branded) drugs. Patients differ in their susceptibility to the drugs. If DTCA is allowed, this can be employed to induce...

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Margins and market shares: Pharmacy incentives for generic substitution

Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - 2012

generics and their market shares. This relationship is stronger for pharmaceuticals under reference pricing rather than …

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Reference pricing, competition, and pharmaceutical expenditures: Theory and evidence from a natural experiment

Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Straume, Odd Rune - 2010

We study the impact of regulation on competition between brand-names and generics and pharmaceutical expenditures 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. First, we construct a vertical...

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Does Reference Pricing Drive Out Generic Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets? Evidence from a Policy Reform

Brekke, Kurt R.; Canta, Chiara; Straume, Odd Rune - 2022

Policy makers use reference pricing to curb pharmaceutical expenditures by reducing coverage of expensive branded drugs. In a theoretical analysis we show that the net effect of reference pricing is generally ambiguous when accounting for entry by generic producers. Reference pricing shifts...

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The Patent Buyout Price for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine and the Ratio of R&D Costs to the Patent Value

Songane, Mario - 2020

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for almost all of the 570,000 new cases of cervical cancer and approximately 311,000 deaths per year. HPV vaccination is an integral component of the World Health Organization's (WHO) global strategy to fight the disease. However, high vaccine prices...

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The Impact of New Drug Launches on Hospitalization in 2015 for 67 Medical Conditions in 15 OECD Countries : A Two-Way Fixed-Effects Analysis

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2019

There are two types of prescription drug cost offsets. The first type of cost offset—from prescription drug use—is primarily about the effect of changes in drug quantity (e.g. due to changes in out-of-pocket drug costs) on other medical costs. The second type of cost offset—the cost offset...

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Does Reference Pricing Drive Out Generic Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets? Evidence from a Policy Reform

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Canta, Chiara; Straume, Odd Rune - 2022

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Regulation and Pricing of Pharmaceuticals : Reference Pricing or Price Cap Regulation?

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Grasdal, Astrid; Holmas, Tor Helge - 2021

-patent pharmaceuticals, replacing the existing price cap (PC) regulation. We estimate the effect of the reform using a product level panel …

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NAFTA and Drug-Related Violence in Mexico

Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased …

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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Utar, Hale - 2018

Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … significant distortive effects of the Mexican Drug War on domestic industrial development in Mexico and suggest that the Drug War …

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