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Pharmaceutical research strategies
Phlippen, Sandra; Vermeersch, An - 2008
This study analyses 1400 research projects of the top 20 R&D-spending pharmaceuticals to identify the determinants of …
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Competition in the presence of individual demand uncertainty
Möller, Marc; Watanabe, Makoto - 2013
This paper sheds light on a recent empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination in airline markets (Borenstein and Rose (1994), Gerardi and Shapiro, (2009)). We introduce individual demand uncertainty into Hotelling’s model of horizontal product differentiation...
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Market structure and advance selling
Möller, Marc; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016
When products are sold in advance, i.e. prior to consumption, consumers trade off an early, uninformed purchase at a low price against a late, informed purchase at a high price. This paper considers the effect of market structure on the prevalence of advance selling. We show that in an...
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Does price competition damage healthcare quality?
Roos, Anne-Fleur; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2018
One of the reasons why regulators are hesitant about permitting price competition in healthcare markets is that it may damage quality when information is poor. Evidence on whether this fear is well-founded is scarce. We provide evidence using a reform that permitted Dutch health insurers and...
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Strategic targeted advertising
Galeotti, Andrea; Moraga-González, José Luis - 2003
We present a strategic game of pricing and targeted-advertising. Firms cansimultaneously target priceadvertisements to different groups of customers, or to the entiremarket. Pure strategy equilibria do not exist and thus marketsegmentation cannot occur surely. Equilibria exhibit random...
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Oligopolistic competition in price and quality
Dubovik, Andrei; Janssen, Maarten C. W. - 2008
We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know neither. We show that two types of signalling...
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Sequential advocacy
Beniers, Klaas J.; Dur, Robert A. J.; Swank, Otto H. - 2003
The collection of information necessary fordecision-making is often delegated to agents (e.g. bureaucrats,advisors, lawyers). If both the pros and cons of a decision haveto be examined, it is better to use competing agents instead of asingle agent. The reason is that two conflicting pieces...
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Bargaining power and quantity discounts to retailers : evidence from India's pharmaceutical industry
Antonecchia, Gianluca; Bhaskarabhatla, Ajay; Pennings, … - 2024
This paper develops a novel theory linking quantity discounts to bargaining power in scenarios where retailers …, organized as a trade association, negotiate uniform wholesale prices with suppliers. Our theory predicts that suppliers offer … observed. Our findings provide empirical support for the proposed theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014583242
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The entry of low-cost airlines : price competition in the European airline market
Alderighi, Marco; Cento, Alessandro; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2004
This paper investigates the response of full service carriers (FSCs) to theentry of low-cost carriers (LCCs). We develop a model of airline competition, which accommodates various market structures, some ofwhich include low-cost players. Using data on published airfares ofLufthansa, British...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335198
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The entry of low-cost airlines : price competition in the European airline market
Alderighi, Marco; Cento, Alessandro; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002131215