to fight the disease. However, high vaccine prices enforced through patent protection are limiting vaccine expansion …, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. By limiting market power, patent buyouts could reduce vaccine prices and raise … HPV vaccination rates while keeping innovation incentives. We estimate the global patent buyout price as the present …

more agressive, which triggers price competition and potentially deters entry by generic producers. To investigate the … branded and generic drug prices and branded market shares. Despite fiercer price competition, the number of generic producers …

quality of service. To test these reasonings, the paper draws empirical evidence from the health systems of Australia, Canada …

We study the impact of regulation on competition between brand-names and generics and pharmaceutical expenditures using …-sample of off-patent products. First, we construct a vertical differentiation model to analyze the impact of regulation on … a unique policy experiment in Norway, where reference pricing (RP) replaced price cap regulation in 2003 for a sub …

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

This paper investigates whether a “Golden Rule” of regulation of an infectious disease may be elicited that balances …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …

This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …

We develop a dynamic model of hospital competition where (i) waiting times increase if demand exceeds supply; (ii …

This paper studies the impact of hospital competition on waiting times. We use a Salop-type model, with hospitals that … from the closest hospital (monopoly segment). Compared with a benchmark case of monopoly, we find that hospital competition … hospital competition, the effect of increased competition depends on the parameter of measurement: Lower travelling costs …