We establish four facts concerning competition among U.S. generic drug suppliers, using IQVIA's National Sales … cohorts; (iii) the extent of competition is greatest for the oldest molform cohorts and is smallest for the youngest molform … cohorts. With a median of one competitor, the extent of competition in the youngest molform cohort is very limited; and (iv …

competition after entry. However, less attention has been paid to pricing behavior in anticipation of brand-to-brand competition …. We contribute to this gap in the literature by both developing a model of pricing strategies for incumbent drug … manufacturers under tiered-insurance anticipating branded competition. Our model predicts rising prices for incumbent drugs for a …

Drug pricing in the U.S. is a persistently vexing policy problem. While there is agreement among many policy analysts … that supra competitive prices are necessary to promote innovation; significant disagreements arise over how much pricing …

prices to retail pharmacies, plausibly because uncertain quality leads to competition on brand rather than price. Tendered …

of competition (e.g. monopoly versus oligopoly). In this paper we model the firm's behavior under different competitive …

New Keynesian models of price setting under monopolistic competition involve two kinds of inefficiency: the price level … asymmetric. Implications for the welfare cost of fluctuations also differ from the standard monopolistic competition case …

countercyclical. We also establish pricing patterns with respect to the relative prices in booms and recessions. If the marginal cost … intermediate range, numerical examples are calculated to show specific pricing patterns …