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Health Insurance and Diversity of Treatment : A Policy Mix Perspective
Bardey, David - 2013
We determine the optimal health policy mix when the average utility of patients increases with the supply of drugs available in a therapeutic class. Health risk coverage rely on two instruments, copayment and reference pricing, that affect the supported risk composed by health expenses and...
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An Analysis of Peer Effects on Vaccination Behavior Using a Model of Privately Provided Public Goods
Ibuka, Yoko - 2018
Traditional economic models of vaccination behavior simply assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decisions of … conjectural variation model, to explain how a positive peer effect regarding vaccination behavior arises. We conduct two empirical … studies using Japanese data in these models. The first empirical analysis, using a data set on the vaccination behavior of …
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Choosing Among Competing Blockbusters : Does the Identity of the Third-Party Payer Matter for Prescribing Doctors?
Dalen, Dag Morten - 2010
TNF-alpha inhibitors represent one of the most important areas of biopharmaceuticals by sales, with three blockbusters accounting for 8% of total pharmaceutical sale in Norway. With use of a unique natural policy experiment in Norway, this paper examines to what extent the identity of the...
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A Probability Approach to Pharmaceutical Demand and Price Setting : Does the Identity of the Third-Party Payer Matters for Prescribing Doctors?
Dalen, Dag Morten - 2011
TNF-alpha inhibitors represent one of the most important areas of biopharmaceuticals by sales, with three blockbusters accounting for 8 per cent of total pharmaceutical sale in Norway. Novelty of the paper is to examine, with the use of a unique natural policy experiment in Norway, to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118139
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Margins and Market Shares : Pharmacy Incentives for Generic Substitution
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2013
generics and their market shares. This relationship is stronger for pharmaceuticals under reference pricing rather than …
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Explaining Early Adoption on New Medicines : Regulation, Innovation and Scale
Varol, Nebibe - 2014
Understanding how price regulations affect the adoption of new patent-protected pharmaceutical technologies is a crucial question in designing health systems. This paper addresses this question by examining how price expectations shape the probability of launch, controlling for competition,...
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Does Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Affect the Adoption of Generic Competition? Evidence from the OECD, 1999-2008
Varol, Nebibe - 2014
Generic competition in the pharmaceutical market is an effective cost-containment mechanism that improves static efficiency and stimulates pharmaceutical innovation. There is no prior study that has empirically analysed the relative delays in adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to...
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The Contribution of Pharmaceutical Innovation to Longevity Growth in Germany and France
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2014
I investigate the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to recent longevity growth in Germany and France. First, I examine the effect of the vintage of prescription drugs (and other variables) on the life expectancy and age-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using...
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Price Regulation and Parallel Imports of Pharmaceuticals
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2015
This paper studies the effects of price regulation and parallel imports in the on-patent pharmaceutical market. In a theory model where the producer price is subject to bargaining between the brand-name producer and a distributor, we show that the effects of stricter price regulation crucially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017702
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Push-Me Pull-You : Comparative Advertising in the OTC Analgesics Industry
Anderson, Simon P. - 2015
We derive equilibrium incentives to use comparative advertising that pushes up own brand perception and pulls down the brand image of targeted rivals. Data on content and spending for all TV advertisements in OTC analgesics enable us to construct matrices of dollar rival targeting and estimate...
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