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Deregulating the Norwegian Pharmaceuticals Market - Consequences for Costs and Availability

Rudholm, Niklas - Handelns Utredningsinstitut (HUI Research) - 2007

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the deregulation of the Norwegian pharmaceuticals market in 2001 on … pharmacies have not decreased as a consequence of the deregulation of the Norwegian pharmaceuticals market. The deregulation of …

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Pharmaceutical prices under regulation: Tiered co-payments and reference pricing in Germany

Herr, Annika; Suppliet, Moritz - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2012

Many countries with national health care providers and health insurances regulate the market for pharmaceuticals to …

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Dynamic Competition in Pharmaceuticals: Patent Expiry, Generic Penetration, and Industry Structure

Magazzini, Laura; Pammolli, Fabio; Riccaboni, Massimo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

distinction seems to emerge. On the one hand, systems that rely on market-based competition in pharmaceuticals promote a clear …

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Business concentration through the eyes of the HHI

Djolov, George - In: International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences … 7 (2014) 2, pp. 105-127

This paper examines the understanding of business concentration through the Her findahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), by showing that this index is conceptually a model according to which this concentration is the consequence of a renewal process. This process is prompted by firms engaging in different...

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Hospital Market Structure and Cost Performance: A Case Study

Santerre, Rexford E.; Bennett, Dana C. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 18 (1992) 2, pp. 209-219

Prior research on the nonprice theory of hospital competition uses data prior to the mid-1980s when third party payers were insensitive to hospital prices. Moreover, existing studies fail to test this theory for the different types of hospital ownership. In response to these issues, this...

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Competition in the Pharmaceutical Industry: How do Quality Differences Shape Advertising Strategies?

de Frutos, Maria-Angeles; Ornaghi, Carmine; Siotis, Georges - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We present a Hotelling model of price and advertising competition between prescription drugs that differ in quality …/side e¤ects. Advertising results in the endogenous formation of two consumer groups: brand loyal and non-brand loyal ones. We … show that advertising strategies are strategic substitutes, with the better quality drugs being the ones that are most …

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Competition in the pharmaceutical industry: How do quality differences shape advertising strategies?

de Frutos, Maria-Angeles; Ornaghi, Carmine; Siotis, Georges - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 1, pp. 268-285

We present a Hotelling model of price and advertising competition between prescription drugs that differ in quality …. We show that advertising intensities are strategic substitutes, with the better quality drugs being the ones that are … loyalty is endogenously determined by promotional effort. The model's main results on advertising and pricing strategies are …

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