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Physician Effects in Antibiotic Prescribing : Evidence from Physician Exits
Huang, Shan; Ullrich, Hannes - 2021
condition for designing effective policies is to identify who drives antibiotic treatment decisions, physicians or patient …
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Dynamic Mergers Effects on R&D Investments and Drug Development Across Research Phases in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Siebert, Ralph - 2020
Pharmaceutical firms spend increasing amounts in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), which raises the question of whether sufficient investment is left after mergers to further develop firms' internal drug development capability. We evaluate the effects of M&As on firms' post-merger R&D investments...
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Pricing the Pharmaceuticals When the Ability to Pay Differs : Taking Vertical Equity Seriously
Kanniainen, Vesa - 2020
A non-trivial fraction of people cannot afford to buy pharmaceutical products at unregulated market prices. Therefore, the paper analyzes the public insurance of the pharmaceutical products in terms of price controls and the socially optimal third-degree price discrimination. It characterizes...
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The Effect of Bargaining Power Determinants on Pharmaceutical Prices
Linde, Sebastian - 2020
This paper provides insights into the determinants of bargaining power and how they affect drug prices. Our data show that drug prices vary across buyers and time periods. We estimate a structural bargaining model where drug suppliers and buyers engage in bilateral bargaining over drug prices....
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Does Your Doctor Matter? Doctor Quality and Patient Outcomes
Ginja, Rita; Riise, Julie; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
there is substantial variation in the quality of physicians, as measured by patients’ post-assignment mortality, in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082234
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Prescription Behavior of Physicians in the Public and Private Sector
Jussila, Elina; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Verho, J - 2023
We analyze prescription behavior of physicians in the public and private sector. We study two major diseases for which … private sector physicians are more likely to prescribe the expensive medication. The result holds after controlling for … our cases, we further find that the same physicians prescribe different medication when working in different sectors …
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Dynamic Effects of Licensing and Knowledge Transfer Across Research Stages : Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
Tian, Zhili - 2020
In the pharmaceutical industry, firms frequently engage in licensing agreements to overcome innovation challenges and keep up with the pace of developing new drugs. Licensing helps firms jointly develop new drugs and acquire external knowledge, which helps improve their internal drug development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832198
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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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Does Reference Pricing Drive Out Generic Competition in Pharmaceutical Markets? Evidence from a Policy Reform
Brekke, Kurt Richard; 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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Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers, and Productivity
Chen, Cheng; Steinwender, Claudia - 2019
When managers have objectives beyond maximizing monetary profits, inefficiencies may arise. An increase in competition may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has received ample theoretical attention, empirical evidence...
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