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Efforts to strengthen the global patent system for pharmaceuticals continue to be controversial, and what will likely …
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This paper studies how insurance coverage policies affect incentives for pharmaceutical innovation. In the United …
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This paper models how the evolving field of pharmacogenomics (PG), which is the science of using genomic markers to predict drug response, may impact drug development times, attrition rates, costs, and the future returns to research and development (R&D). While there still remains an abundance...
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This paper introduces a newly digitized, open-access version of the Food and Drug Administration's "Orange Book"--a linkage between approved small-molecule drugs and the patents that protect them. The Orange Book also reports any applicable regulatory exclusivity that prevents competitive entry....
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This study investigates how enhanced regulation can promote innovation, focusing on the impacts of a significant … recognized the improvement in drug innovation, as reflected in stock price adjustments post new drug registrations after the … latecomers could boost their innovation potential by adopting specific, effective regulatory practices from frontier countries …
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should have expired, while proponents argue they reinforce incentives for innovation. We estimate the impact of settlements …
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The fivefold increase in opioid deaths between 2000 and 2017 rivals even the COVID-19 pandemic as a health crisis for America. Why did it happen? Measures of demand for pain relief - physical pain and despair - are high but largely unchanging. The primary shift is in supply, primarily of new...
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In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim...
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This paper compares the clinical trial strategies and performance of large, established ("mature") biopharmaceutical firms to those of smaller ("early stage") firms that have not yet successfully developed a drug. We study a sample of 235 cancer drug candidates that entered clinical trials...
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This paper examines trends in the aggregate productivity of the pharmaceutical sector over the past three decades. We incorporate Ricardo's insight about demand-driven productivity in settings of variable scarce resources, and estimate the industry's responsiveness to changes in demand over this...
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